Subject: Re: Don't have a problem yet, cause NetBSD installation failed on HP NetServer
To: Holger <germanhd@usa.net>
From: Andrew Doran <ad@ravenhead.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/25/2002 16:27:23
Holger <germanhd@usa.net> wrote:
> Hi, I recently acquired a HP NetServer 5/133 LS2 (4x133 and 512MB RAM)
> that went out of production. I do have all the NetBSD CDs now and started
> the installation by booting the first CD-ROM. After reading Federico
> Lupi’s short guide and checking the notes on supported SCSI RAID Arrays I
> configured one RAID5 drive (consisting of 4 4.3GB discs) on the HPDA
> (actually a relabelled Mylex DAC 960PL) and yet let the other discs
> untouched. Also I installed the HP utility partition (which would have to
> considered when configuring the boot loader). So I hoped it would give me
> a disc sd0. The installation program seems to be unable to find the
> disc. Can you give me any hint whether my whole choice of NetBSD is
> obsolete due to my Servers RAID system or if I can still hope to get it up
> an running some day? Very best regards Holger
No official release to date will recognise this board. NetBSD-1.5.3 will,
and will be released some time in the near future. In the meantime, there's
a snapshot here that you can play with if you like:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/snapshot/20020125-1.5.3_ALPHA/
Andrew