ceremorphosis

We got our Penguin Computing server last night, and the first thing after unboxing and testing was to replace Fedora Core 4 with Ubuntu. I downloaded the x86-64 distro of Badger Breezy, slap the ISO in, and egads! the drives are not recognized. A quick trip to 3Ware’s site reveals that kernels 2.6.14 and above have support for the 9550SX. Breezy ships with 2.6.12. 3Ware has driver images I can use for install, but just for SuSE, RHEL, and Fedora Core 4. Anything else, I will have to compile against source.

Now, what to do? I can’t compile, since I don’t have a computer to compile upon – well, not without work. I could build my own CD, but again, major pain. So, decided on installing Dapper Flight 4. It’s not the final release, so I have some concerns. I’ve got apache2, PHP 5, MySQL 5, and the modules/libs for the web sites. My intent was PHP 5 and MySQL 4, but now that 5 is installed, I may stick with it.