----- Original Message ----- From: "Kianusch Sayah Karadji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 7:50 PM Subject: Unofficial HP/Compaq Drivers/Config Utilities for Debian
> Hi! > > After some days working on an ML370/DL380 I've written a script to > automaticly download hpasm, cmastor and cpqacuxe RPMs (the latest RedHat > 2.1 versions) and convert those RPMs to Debian packages for easy > installation. No - It's not a simple call to alien... :) > > hpasm/cmastor are for Health Monitoring. > > cpqacuxe is for configuring Compaq Raid-Arrays. > > Be aware that those Packages only work for 2.4.x kernel's they do not work > on 2.6.x based systems - as the HP-Modules won't compile on 2.6.x kernels. > > You can download the script from > > http://www.sk-tech.net/support/HPrpm2deb.sh.html > > You'll find some small description on the top of the script. > > Regards > Kianusch > Thanks Kianusch, I was on a HP SAN course last week and was asking about support for Debian as opposed to Red Hat, and the answer was basically that it takes a long time to test Open Source operating systems and therefore the official support for any other distribution than Red Hat may happen at some stage, but not in the near future. It's good to know there's a way of installing it successfully on them as I was considering testing Debian at work on an ML350 G3 which has a SmartArray 532 and will require the software you have listed above. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
