bigfreak
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I know these computer nerd threads tend to tank, but I just can't get over that I had the company spend $350 for Linux yesterday. I remember back in 2002 when redhat was all over the news for this, but I didn't think it was that big of a deal. As we all know redhat is the flavor Linux that everyone knows best. It's the one that IT guys use cause it has the most support.
A few month ago, I downloaded redhat 9. I installed it on this crappy Pentium 1 machine to use as a temporary home for my Inventory project (PHP/MySQL). It worked great. Anyway, now that this inventory thing is getting off the ground, I needed a better server. I went for a U1 rackmountable PowerEdge 750. I cloned the IDE hard drive from my Pentium 1 machine. Easy Peasy, Right?
Wrong, I boot it up and I get a kernel panic because it can't see the SATA RAID controller. So surely, someone someplace has fixed something like this. They have updated redhat or they supply redhat driver someplace.. surely... right?
Wrong again. I spent all day yesterday searching and searching and searching. End the end I whipped out my Corp Master Card and paid the $350 for RedHat Enterprise ES. And it works perfectly.
A few month ago, I downloaded redhat 9. I installed it on this crappy Pentium 1 machine to use as a temporary home for my Inventory project (PHP/MySQL). It worked great. Anyway, now that this inventory thing is getting off the ground, I needed a better server. I went for a U1 rackmountable PowerEdge 750. I cloned the IDE hard drive from my Pentium 1 machine. Easy Peasy, Right?
Wrong, I boot it up and I get a kernel panic because it can't see the SATA RAID controller. So surely, someone someplace has fixed something like this. They have updated redhat or they supply redhat driver someplace.. surely... right?
Wrong again. I spent all day yesterday searching and searching and searching. End the end I whipped out my Corp Master Card and paid the $350 for RedHat Enterprise ES. And it works perfectly.