Redhat 7.3 will run fine on these.  I have a mix of 1850's, DL380s all
over the country running Redhat 7.3 on them.   The 2S Raid card in them
is natively supported.  (Symbos driver type) 

No problems with the Nics, you will have download the driver from HP.  I
have had issues with later units like the DL360's and Nics if they
didn't have the latest Intel driver and speeds set but none with DL380.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug@kclug.org [mailto:owner-kclug@kclug.org] On Behalf Of
jon.moss@cnonline.net
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 1:57 PM
To: Rob Becker
Cc: kclug@kclug.org
Subject: RE: Compaq DL380 - What Distro?

No worries, I didn't take your comments wrong!  :)

My concern is the server hardware/architecture.  I have the latest
Compaq
SmartStart CD (courtesy of the donor) and made sure my BIOS was up to
date.

But I've never installed any Linux on anything but workstations -  two
or
three different models of Compaq Deskpros.  While that was fairly easy,
I'm losing sleep at night worrying about the array controller and the
RAID
setup on the four 18 GB drives.

Harware is definitely not my forte.  I can do it, but it takes a lot of
patience and relaxing music.  :)

I was also a little concerned because RedHat 9 is no longer supported by
RedHat, right?  Hence I was thinking I should move to a different
distrobution.

Thanks for the advice.

Jon
> This is not meant to be a smartass comment, but it may sound that way.
> Use whatever distro you are most comfortable supporting.  If you are
> familiar with RH 9 then go for it.  If you are the person who will be
in
> charge of keeping it patched, secured and running, then go with what
you
> know.  As far as ease of patching, Debian is said to be very nice.  I
am
> still struggling with getting Debian installed the way I like it so I
> can't comment from experience, yet.
> Good luck with that server.
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jon.moss@cnonline.net [mailto:jon.moss@cnonline.net]
> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 11:35 AM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Compaq DL380 - What Distro?
>
> My church has received a donation of a Compaq DL380.
>
> Eventually, I would like this server to be the webserver for the
church.
>
> I use RedHat 9 at home on a workstation to host part of the web site
(so
> I
> can do PHP and MySQL code), but I'm not a die hard RedHat fan.
>
> What distro would you suggest?
>
> If I could, I would bring the server to tomorrow night's meeting, but
> I'm
> just a girl and can't lift the darn thing, let alone lug it all the
way
> to
> the meeting.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jon Moss
> jon@mossfam.net
>
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