From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 16:10:05 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE1E016A41F for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:10:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 379B143D82 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:09:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 49814 invoked by uid 89); 29 Dec 2005 16:09:52 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 49808, pid: 49810, t: 1.1384s scanners: attach: 1.1.0 clamav: 0.86.2/m:33/d:1045 spam: 3.0.4 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.100.179?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@213.196.191.65) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 29 Dec 2005 16:09:51 -0000 Message-ID: <43B40A4E.2090105@ultra-secure.de> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:09:50 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Fosburgh References: <200512291052.00546.andrea@brancatelli.it> <43B400E6.9040605@ultra-secure.de> <200512290945.17565.syjef@mdanderson.org> In-Reply-To: <200512290945.17565.syjef@mdanderson.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on bsd.ultra-secure.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM Blade Center - FreeBSD on HS20 type MTM 8832/N1X X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:10:05 -0000 Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: >On Thursday 29 December 2005 09:29, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > > >>Are you sure it's not USB? >>We have a LS20 blade-center and the whole media-bay (where floppy and >>cdrom live) and the KVM are connected via USB - it's even USB1.1, so >>installling something from CDROM is dead-slow (in addition, the >>brain-dead java remote-console together with this USB-CDROM-crazyness >>makes remote-installation of RHEL3+4 impossible...). >> >> > >I'm not sure what type the LS20 is (we have JS20 PowerPC blades running AIX). >I do believe all of the internal connections are USB. > > LS20=AMD-Blades. Hard to find, even on the IBM-website (they are not listed on the blade-page, but rather on the AMD-servers page - thank you, IBM). >>Your floppy is not SCSI, rather it's connected via USB and the kernel >>makes it look like a SCSI-device... >> >>We've got no local drives, only SAN and as such FreeBSD is pretty much a >>no-go. I need something that works (and is supported) with my SAN... >> >> >> > >If you can get RHEL installed that is supported, though I guess it depends on >the type of storage you have. It is supported by IBM storage, as is SUSE. > > I can get RHEL installed (though installing RHEL4 is a PITA), but I don't like it ;-) cheers, Rainer