IBM Blade Center - FreeBSD on HS20 type MTM 8832/N1X

[Rainer Duffner]

Jonathan Fosburgh wrote:

>On Thursday 29 December 2005 09:29, Rainer Duffner wrote:
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>>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...).
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>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.
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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...
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>>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...
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>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.
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I can get RHEL installed (though installing RHEL4 is a PITA), but I 
don't like it ;-)



cheers,
Rainer