Seth Mos wrote:
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We bought the basic ES product for $350 only to find that it doesn't
support the raid controller in the new server it is supposed to be
installed on. Yay. Red Hat says that the machine is not listed in their
hardware compatability list and as such will not do anything with the
support call. To make it even sillier, the driver for the raid
controller in question is in the rpm but not available during installer
time... aaarrrgh.
Hi Seth,
I spoke with Rik van Riel the other day regarding an enterprise kernel
beta I found on rawhide and he said the 2.4.2{0|1} version of the Red
Hat enteprise kernel should be going into "official" freeze any day now.
Based on that, he predicts that a formal release of that kernel should
happen soon (mid July?) (I'm assuming a new version of the AS/ES product
will be released as well). Unfortunately, while it uses the more
current -rc-ac patchset (which had xfs support), apparently they
stripped the xfs bits from it. Still, it should be better then screwing
around with 2.4.9 :-). Perhaps you might want to e-mail him and express
interest in helping to get xfs support into anaconda (since xfs is
pretty popular in the enterprise).
Cheers,
Nicholas
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