Re: Changing hardware issue

On Sep 29, 11:22 pm, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzk...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:26:05 -0700, Brian Ronk wrote:
I have an issue that hopefully someone can help we with. I have a
server that we would like to have a backup of in case it goes down. We
made an image of this server, and have gotten it to install before (on
the original hardware). The backup machine that we want though has a
different raid controller (adaptec is in the original, hp netserver in
the backup). When the backup machine boots, it tries to load the
adaptec driver. I should mention that this machine is running RH9. As
far as I can see, this other controller is supported. Is there something
that I can change to force it to use a correct driver? Or am I doing an
exercise in futility?

If you need RH9 for some reason, for example you have some software that
doesn't run a modern distro, you should run it in a VM on top of a
current distro like CentOS5 or Fedora7. Virtualization allows you to
divorce hardware compatibility issues from software compatibility issues.

The only reason that it's running RH9 is because that is what it was
installed with. I think I'm going to try to get a newer version of
something running for that server, but it depends on time right now
more than anything. The machine I'm talking about is our email
server, so it's not something we can take down for long periods of
time without a backup system, which is what we were hoping for
possibly.
Virtualization would be nice... But I'm not sure we have anything
that could handle that type of load right now. I was actually going
to try to get a virtual machine to test some stuff with it, but I'm
having issues getting it to work. I'm going to try a few other things
before I label it as not workable.
Thanks for the input. Not quite what I was thinking was possible, but
that's ok.

.

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