[ale] GParted & unallocated space

Thu Nov 11 07:47:17 EST 2010

It does use the /dev/hdx devices.   

I didn't check to see what other drivers were available - RHEL5 picked it automatically on install.   Maybe lack of it is why Ubuntu users were having difficulty installing?

Anyway RHEL6 is out so I'll probably play with that now.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Greg Freemyer
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 5:12 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] GParted & unallocated space

Isn't the ATA_PIIX driver one of the deprecated ones that use /dev/hdx naming?

I imagine they will be around for years, but you should evaluate
moving to one of the libata drivers which is the main branch now.
(they use /dev/sdx naming, so it's easy to tell deprecated drivers
from main branch).

Greg

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> Just as a follow up - We've now installed RHEL5 on a couple of HP Compaq
> 6000 Pro SFF PCs without any issues.   No special flags or drivers
> needed - just boot the DVD and go through standard installation.
> Apparently not all HPs have issues loading Linux or maybe only Ubuntu
> has issues loading.  I noticed the driver it picked was ata_piix.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Lightner, Jeff
> Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 12:11 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: Re: [ale] GParted & unallocated space
>
> We use the Dell PowerEdge servers (various models) and RHEL install
> quite nicely on those as does CentOS.  I've used everything from RHEL2.1
> to RHEL5.5 (and CentOS 5.5) on them.  I've also installed Fedora on a
> few.   Also have seen it installed on an Optiplex desktop.
>
> The only big trouble I ever had was trying to install Fedora 7 on an old
> 2450 once - turned out the issue was it had a newer MegaRAID driver for
> the PERC 2.0 (RAID) controller that wasn't compatible.   Later I found
> that the older driver was there as well but had to be selected manually
> during the install.   Other than that I have seen a couple of older
> Dells e.g the 1300 that required me to set ide=nodma or something like
> that so it would properly use the CD drive during the install.
>
> Dell had announced they were supporting Ubuntu on their systems some
> time ago.  (That may have been laptops.)
>
> I actually have an HP Desktop waiting to be loaded with RHEL as a
> personal workstation.   It will interesting to see if there are issues
> loading it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Paul
> Cartwright
> Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 11:46 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: Re: [ale] GParted & unallocated space
>
> On Sat October 2 2010, Jim Philips wrote:
>> So, I backed up the recovery partition to DVD's and then deleted it
> from my
>> hard drive. I now have Ubuntu installed. Way more trouble than it
> should
>> have been. My co-worker is a long-time IBM employee. He says that HP
> is
>> very much in bed with Microsoft and deliberately builds its PC's to
> make
>> Linux installation difficult. I believe him.
>
> Dell isn't any better, even though they do seel Linux boxes, the regular
> boxes
> have that partition for restoring WIN OS.. I think originally mine had 2
>
> partitions, one restore, one diagnostic.
>
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