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. > > 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. -- Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX
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