Re: Dell "software"

Sorin Srbu wrote:
mark <> scribbled on Thursday, November 08, 2007 2:37 AM:

So, at work today, I realized I had to rebuild this server - it was on
RHEL 3, and it really needed 4 (corporate hasn't looked at 5 yet).

It's a Dell PowerEdge 850 - a blade. I, foolishly, put in the RHEL CDs
that came with all these systems.... and the RH install program can't
find the CD it booted from. After much irritation, I find a Dell package
of CDs that you are apparently supposed to boot from; it's even got an
install for RHEL 4. Great.

AND SOME COMPLETE JACKASS AT DELL - what was this, release 8.9, and all
by kids for whom this was their first job out of school? - FORCE YOU TO
FORMAT ALL PARTITIONS. No options. No letting the RH install Disk Druid
do it.

So everything I had aside on /opt is toast, and that'll be hours more
work.

No, I can't recommend this crap.

Sorry to rain on your parade, but this way of restoring an os-install on a
brand-name server (on clients as well) is rather common. I'm surprised you
didn't know about this. On the bright side; you only tend to do this once...

I've never needed it before - this is the first time working with blade servers, and I haven't had trouble with a computer not finding the CD it booted from for a Linux install since my first time with a laptop.

And if this is "accepted" as common, then I reiterate, it's amateur, in the *worst* sense of the word. I wanted to save all the data, as I'd doing an upgrade of a full release. As I said in my article in the July SysAdmin magazine, it's always better to do a full install when going up a full release, since nobody gives you a good way to do that, as they do for a subrelease upgrade.

Why would I want to wipe /home, or /opt, if they already exist? Give me one good reason.

mark

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