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If you got the server brand-new, there will be a CD box with software included.
All the neccessary drivers are included on the SmartStart CD, both for Windows and Linux.
HP included an "AutoPlay" feature which didn't work on my OpenSuSe installation - upon further inspection, a library was missing, details are here.
Once the AutoPlay feature was up and running, I then tried to create stiffy disk images - but no luck. Went round and round, but still no luck.
Decided to browse the CD's for the driver images, and found them under the 'punchkey' directory...
did a dd to restore the images to a temporary folder and tried to merge the DUD's onto one stiffy image, but was not lucky because :
1. The resultant image is too large for one stiffy
2. One driver doesn't have a pcimap file, the other two have ... and I think it somehow messes things up
Anyways, to cut a long story short, I tried to install the drivers via USB memory stick, but failed. Only when I connected an USB stiffy drive, and wrote the image(s) directly to a stiffy (how archaic!) was I able to install the drivers and get the rig up and running.
What a waste of time... at least I've learnt something.
And I have decided to post this up, because somebody might have the same issue.
This also works for RHEL 4 and RHEL 5. Other Linux distros might have the same procedure - or they might have the drivers already bundled with the installation package.
NOTE : the DVD-ROM included with the server is SATA, so you'll have a nice catch-22 situation in trying to get RHEL to install - either install it from an USB CDROM, or you have to create the DUD and install that driver so it'll recognize the SATA ROM.
All the neccessary drivers are included on the SmartStart CD, both for Windows and Linux.
HP included an "AutoPlay" feature which didn't work on my OpenSuSe installation - upon further inspection, a library was missing, details are here.
Once the AutoPlay feature was up and running, I then tried to create stiffy disk images - but no luck. Went round and round, but still no luck.
Decided to browse the CD's for the driver images, and found them under the 'punchkey' directory...
did a dd to restore the images to a temporary folder and tried to merge the DUD's onto one stiffy image, but was not lucky because :1. The resultant image is too large for one stiffy
2. One driver doesn't have a pcimap file, the other two have ... and I think it somehow messes things up
Anyways, to cut a long story short, I tried to install the drivers via USB memory stick, but failed. Only when I connected an USB stiffy drive, and wrote the image(s) directly to a stiffy (how archaic!) was I able to install the drivers and get the rig up and running.
What a waste of time... at least I've learnt something.
And I have decided to post this up, because somebody might have the same issue.
This also works for RHEL 4 and RHEL 5. Other Linux distros might have the same procedure - or they might have the drivers already bundled with the installation package.
NOTE : the DVD-ROM included with the server is SATA, so you'll have a nice catch-22 situation in trying to get RHEL to install - either install it from an USB CDROM, or you have to create the DUD and install that driver so it'll recognize the SATA ROM.
