Ubuntu 18.04 on (Really) Old HP Proliant

[Thomas Scott]

I know I had a legacy install on a Proliant I supported that was installed
upside down and burnt out it's drives after a few years (surprised it
lasted that long). When I came on-site to reinstall it, I tried to install
16.04 since I already had the install media on me, I couldn't as it had
issues with the RAID array controller. I had to roll back to 14.04 and then
upgrade it to maintain compatibility. I had a similar issue with CentOS6/7
a bout a year ago as well, also on HP servers. In my experience, both times
it was the RAID controller.
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On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 9:47 PM Todd Cole <toddc at azloco.com> wrote:

> I suspect it may be 32Bit computer but it should give you a i386 hardware
> error during installation.
> while 18.04 is only 64 bit you can use the net install at
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/bionic/
> it has a community supported 32 bit version available
>
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 12:24 PM Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have an older Proliant server I am trying to make use of at home. The
>> hardware is fully functional, and aside from needing some spare drive
>> sleds, It is ready to go.
>>
>> However, I cannot run 18.04 on the server and I suspect it is related to
>> changes in the kernel and I am trying to map those.
>>
>> The Architecture is Dual Opteron quad-core Processors and DDR2 ECC
>> Registered memory. I think it is a DL 365 Gen 1 (would have to look to make
>> sure)
>>
>> Does anyone have thoughts on how I could gracefully get this hardware to
>> a current kernel?
>>
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>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>
>> Stephen
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