[Lilug] Ugh, Searching for a New Distro

Justin Dearing zippy1981 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 14 14:30:46 PDT 2015


Chris,

If its that much if a change to use something not debian based, consider
FreeBSD if that supports your hardware. Its not Linux, but its a great unix
server OS. Sticking to actual Linux, CentOS 7 is fairly new and might
support your HP. If money exists in a budget somewhere, you can also just
pay for RHEL and make them figure it out. I would shy against putting
Fedora on a server though.

That being said, you just need to make a debian install ISO with a custom
kernel with that raid driver, or load that raid driver at startup. I don't
think that would be too hard to do if you just "burned" the install ISO to
a USB key, booted in rescue mode and then installled the kernel module to
the usb drive and edited grub to load that module on startup. Yes its been
a decade since I built a kernel from source. but I think google will
confirm I'm not crazy here.

Thinking totally out of the box, why not put VMWare ESX or some other
hypervisor on the bar metal and make one giant VM with all the resources.
Modern hypervisors are really light weight and will abstract all your
hardware away, assuming your hypervisor has the preoper raid drivers.

Justin




On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 5:17 PM Christopher Merlo <cmerlo441 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My hope for an awesome day, installing Debian on a brand new server, was
> dashed by a proprietary HP RAID driver:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/498133/how-to-install-ubuntu-14-04-on-hp-dynamic-smart-array-b120i-logical-drive
> (It looks like I can add a driver after I've installed Ubuntu to my
> unrecognized logical drive?  Not sure how this helps.
> https://launchpad.net/~hp-iss-team/+archive/ubuntu/hp-storage?field.series_filter=trusty
> <https://launchpad.net/%7Ehp-iss-team/+archive/ubuntu/hp-storage?field.series_filter=trusty>
> )
>
> This is the only kind of server I have access to because public education
> / county purchasing / you'll use HP and like it.  I haven't used a
> non-Debian-based distro in I don't know how long, but I guess I'm going to
> start.  So, what do you recommend?
> -c
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