Ubuntu 18.04 on (Really) Old HP Proliant

Stephen Partington cryptworks at gmail.com
Tue Dec 10 08:43:40 MST 2019


well microsoft has made good improvements with WSL and you can do some neat
things like that


On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 8:27 AM Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> Upgrading to 18.04 broke like everything for me (kde, wm, graphics
> drivers), it's what single-handedly drove me to arch, so ymmv.
>
> My experience with arch hasn't been much better of late, so take it for
> what you will.  Arch updates blew up my desktop, and my laptop I'm afraid
> to reboot as my last working device.  If I didn't hate windoze so much, I
> might actually try it again, but it's performance on my xps15 was absolute
> shite with the 4k display.  Like mouse lag randomly just to screw with me
> and slow down everything working.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 9:13 PM Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It is most definitely 64 bit. I had 64 bit 16.04 running like a champ
>> until the 18.04 upgrade was done.
>>
>> It also ran vmware 6.7 well also.
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2019, 9:02 PM Thomas Scott <mr.thomas.scott at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
>>>>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>>>>
>>>>> Stephen
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A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen
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