Installing Solaris on PowerEdge 1750

Andrew Owen

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Apr 24, 2009, 1:51:37 AM4/24/09

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Hi,

I have the chance to get a cheap Dell PowerEdge 1750. It's a 2x 3Ghz
Xeon system with a 4Di RAID controller, 2x 36GB SCSI drives, 2GB of
RAM and a CD-ROM drive.

Does anyone have any experience with installing Solaris on this kind
of kit? I guess I could get a USB DVD drive to be able to use the DVD
media. But I can't find any reference to the 4Di controller being
supported by any of the various versions of Solaris. And lastly, which
version of Solaris would you recommend. I'm tempted to stick with
Solaris 10, as I'm not sure how Oracle will behave on any other
version, but would OpenSolaris be a better choice?

Regards

-Andrew

solx

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Apr 24, 2009, 7:04:11 AM4/24/09

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The 4Di I believe is an rebranded LSI MegaRAID controller which may be
recognised the Sun LSImega driver, if it does no then this pick up a
modifed Sun LSImega driver here. This driver has been modified to
support MegaRAID SATA cards and all LSI rebranded cards as well.

ftp://ftp.flomerics.co.uk/pub/lsimega60modified.img.bz2

Hope that helps

Zedex Dragon

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Apr 27, 2009, 5:26:02 PM4/27/09

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Yes. Thanks for the link. I'll report back when I get it up and
running.

Canuck57

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May 16, 2009, 1:32:32 PM5/16/09

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"Andrew Owen" <chev...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:9af0bcca-9294-418a...@g1g2000yqh.googlegroups.com...

Earlier this year I gave up trying to run Solaris as the native OS on Intel
hardware. Drivers are a real PITA. For example the ICHR7/8/9 chipset is
very popular on PCs yet Solaris does not recognize it. The new systems only
work if the BIOS supplies downgraded IDE compatibility to the SATA.

So what I do it run it in a VM, VMWare or VirtualBox will do fine. Plus I
get the added benefit if I mess up the image I am one snapshot away from
fixing my errors. And you don't even need to burn a DVD, just tell the VM
here is the ISO file...

As for Oracle now owning Sun, just suffice it to say Solaris just got the
kiss of death. Keep your ISO images as Oracle might turn off the
distribution at any time. If you do this for a living, and already have
not, keep your Linux skills up2date.

Ian Collins

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May 16, 2009, 6:09:06 PM5/16/09

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Canuck57 wrote:
> "Andrew Owen" <chev...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:9af0bcca-9294-418a...@g1g2000yqh.googlegroups.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have the chance to get a cheap Dell PowerEdge 1750. It's a 2x 3Ghz
>> Xeon system with a 4Di RAID controller, 2x 36GB SCSI drives, 2GB of
>> RAM and a CD-ROM drive.
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with installing Solaris on this kind
>> of kit? I guess I could get a USB DVD drive to be able to use the DVD
>> media. But I can't find any reference to the 4Di controller being
>> supported by any of the various versions of Solaris. And lastly, which
>> version of Solaris would you recommend. I'm tempted to stick with
>> Solaris 10, as I'm not sure how Oracle will behave on any other
>> version, but would OpenSolaris be a better choice?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> -Andrew
>
> Earlier this year I gave up trying to run Solaris as the native OS on Intel
> hardware. Drivers are a real PITA. For example the ICHR7/8/9 chipset is
> very popular on PCs yet Solaris does not recognize it. The new systems only
> work if the BIOS supplies downgraded IDE compatibility to the SATA.

New Intel boards (including ICH10R) work out of the box with OpenSolaris
and SXCE builds.

> As for Oracle now owning Sun, just suffice it to say Solaris just got the
> kiss of death. Keep your ISO images as Oracle might turn off the
> distribution at any time.

Hardly likely.

--
Ian Collins