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.. wrote: I might give that a go. Could you tell me which PSP you downloaded, and where to find the IMD utility in it? I am assuming you are running Fedora Core 4. If so, download from he http://h18013.www1.hp.com/support/fi...oad/24759.html Unzip the file (gzip) and search the contents for installable files (rpm format). You can also run setup and only select the utilities that you want to load (this gives you more detailed explanations of what the utilities do...as opposed to having to guess based on the file name). Please report any success or failure. I sometimes wonder if LC sees the potential, that Linux has, to breathe new life into this legacy hardware. I am a "hardware" man myself, and want nothing more than to see the life of these machines extended far beyond their designers wildest dreams. |
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"Jeffrey Alsip" wrote in message oups.com... . wrote: I might give that a go. Could you tell me which PSP you downloaded, and where to find the IMD utility in it? I am assuming you are running Fedora Core 4. If so, download from he http://h18013.www1.hp.com/support/fi...oad/24759.html Unzip the file (gzip) and search the contents for installable files (rpm format). You can also run setup and only select the utilities that you want to load (this gives you more detailed explanations of what the utilities do...as opposed to having to guess based on the file name). Please report any success or failure. I sometimes wonder if LC sees the potential, that Linux has, to breathe new life into this legacy hardware. I am a "hardware" man myself, and want nothing more than to see the life of these machines extended far beyond their designers wildest dreams. Of course i see the the opensource potential for these old boxes. The reality is that my world revolves around all (current) flavors of Windows Server OS's and i no longer have the time, or the energy, to absorb the learning curve of develeoping the same proficiency with *nix that I have with Windows (x86, x64, IA64), all editions. 10 pounds of crap .... 5 pound bag, so i have to choose the 5 pounds of MS as opposed to OpenSource. - LC |
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NuTCrAcKeR wrote:
10 pounds of crap .... 5 pound bag, so i have to choose the 5 pounds of MS as opposed to OpenSource. Oh I quite agree - the practical realities of work have to take precedence. In my case however I can afford to set a machine up over the course of a few days, attending to it from time to time as it's doing a build, because my line of work is embedded hardware design and so I don't have to worry about commissioning several machines a week for impatient clients. I can start it off, design a board during the day, and then see if the machine's ready to do something several hours later as I'm walking past. I do lots of Gentoo Linux servers for people this way, but they understand that: a) It's going to be an obsolete machine (nothing wrong with that of course) but as such it'll still be more than good enough for the job and besides, look at the peanuts you'll shell out to buy one, and b) It's not going to happen in one day. Give me a call in about a week. A lot of these legacy machines are indeed finding new life in scenarios like this. A client of mine, after seeing the 4 Proliants in my rack (1200, 5000, 5500, 7000 - all running Gentoo with 2.6 kernels) is getting me to build him up a LAMP server for his travel booking company because he's seen how fast my own web server runs (the 5500, and the machine is way faster than my ADSL connection anyway) and he can't argue for spending $1000 for a new machine with inferior cooling and mechanical ruggedness when he can pick up something with quad processors and RAID 5 storage for one fifth of that cost. But of course, by the same token I'm not going to walk into the bank's data centre and suggest they outfit themselves with a bank of 7000s like the ones they just decommissioned six months ago |
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NuTCrAcKeR wrote: 10 pounds of crap .... 5 pound bag, so i have to choose the 5 pounds of MS as opposed to OpenSource. - LC I know. I know. I just like involving you! Jeff |
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I appreciate what you've said, and it may indeed be impossible to get the
IMD utility to run under Gentoo, but I was asking if you could tell me where in the PSP the IMD utility actually is, because I've downloaded PSP 7.2 for RH4 Enterprise and I just can't find it in any of the archives. Are you sure that it IS in the PSP for RH4? Jeffrey Alsip wrote: Messy is right! Gentoo is based on BSD, and it appears that BSD has never been given any attention by the Compaq Support team. If you are married to Gentoo, you may be out of luck. Someday Compaq may release the source for these utilities (allowing us to do some fancy compiling), but I wouldn't hold my breath. For compiled utilities you will have to choose from Red Hat, SUsE, Solaris, or SCO. I am, of course, an advocate of Red Hat, but SUsE is just as free and just as full featured. I have never gotten the free Solaris 10 to install on ANYTHING...though it claims to be compatable with a boatload of x86 hardware. SCO, I have never tried. The only thing that I am absolutely certain about is an install of Fedora Core 4, then using the Enterprise 4 PSP. Sorry. Jeff |
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"Jeffrey Alsip" wrote in message ups.com... NuTCrAcKeR wrote: 10 pounds of crap .... 5 pound bag, so i have to choose the 5 pounds of MS as opposed to OpenSource. - LC I know. I know. I just like involving you! Jeff thanks, per'tiate it ! |
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Nut Cracker wrote: thanks, per'tiate it ! See, that makes no sense to me. We speak the "Kings English" here! Jeff |
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i would suspect that the IMD is not present on any of the systems that HP
officially suppors RHEL4 on. That is likely the problem ... - LC "Dean" wrote in message ... I appreciate what you've said, and it may indeed be impossible to get the IMD utility to run under Gentoo, but I was asking if you could tell me where in the PSP the IMD utility actually is, because I've downloaded PSP 7.2 for RH4 Enterprise and I just can't find it in any of the archives. Are you sure that it IS in the PSP for RH4? Jeffrey Alsip wrote: Messy is right! Gentoo is based on BSD, and it appears that BSD has never been given any attention by the Compaq Support team. If you are married to Gentoo, you may be out of luck. Someday Compaq may release the source for these utilities (allowing us to do some fancy compiling), but I wouldn't hold my breath. For compiled utilities you will have to choose from Red Hat, SUsE, Solaris, or SCO. I am, of course, an advocate of Red Hat, but SUsE is just as free and just as full featured. I have never gotten the free Solaris 10 to install on ANYTHING...though it claims to be compatable with a boatload of x86 hardware. SCO, I have never tried. The only thing that I am absolutely certain about is an install of Fedora Core 4, then using the Enterprise 4 PSP. Sorry. Jeff |
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