Recently we bought V20z Servers and installed SUSE 9.2.
The CDs delivered with the server were outdated long ago,
so I tried to download the nsv bundle from the SUN download
server. The zip-File was defect. The boneheads who manage
the server answered to my mail: our server runs, if You
have technical problems, call sunservice.

Last week, they were able to provide a new zip File, which
unzips correctly, but it will only work up to SUSE 9.1
(kernel 2.4).

Please Owners of V[24]0z can You tell me how much months is
SUN behind Linux in the average?

In article <33f9gnF3vrn8jU1@individual.net>,
Horst Scheuermann <RAUWAKJENXSY@spammotel.com> wrote:
>Please Owners of V[24]0z can You tell me how much months is
>SUN behind Linux in the average?

The Hardware handbook says Sun certifies the V20z for SLES8. You
should contact your SE to find out when Sun will certify their boxes
for SLES9.

John
groenveld@acm.org

AAAAAAAW@urts47.uni-trier.de (Horst Scheuermann) writes:
> Recently we bought V20z Servers and installed SUSE 9.2.

Wrong product for your servers. Use SLES, not the consumer product.

http://developer.novell.com/yes/75358.htm

> Last week, they were able to provide a new zip File, which
> unzips correctly, but it will only work up to SUSE 9.1
> (kernel 2.4).

SUSE LINUX 9.2 is 2.6.5 based.

Gerald
--
Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/

Horst Scheuermann wrote:
> Recently we bought V20z Servers and installed SUSE 9.2.
> The CDs delivered with the server were outdated long ago,
> so I tried to download the nsv bundle from the SUN download
> server. The zip-File was defect. The boneheads who manage
> the server answered to my mail: our server runs, if You
> have technical problems, call sunservice.
>
> Last week, they were able to provide a new zip File, which
> unzips correctly, but it will only work up to SUSE 9.1
> (kernel 2.4).
>
> Please Owners of V[24]0z can You tell me how much months is
> SUN behind Linux in the average?

You need to use SLES 9, and it is based on the 2.6 kernel. Just buy
directly from SuSE and don't mess with the Sun version. You will save
yourself much headache. ($330 including 1 year support. To renew each
year, just buy another copy)

Also, by trying to use 9.2 or any other non-supported version your
gonna face grief with every software vendor you deal with. There all
just gonna pass the buck and say "We don't support it". I tried this
path and found that drivers are severly lacking, many HBA vendors still
have the SLES 9 drivers in beta, some havent even gotten that far yet.
SuSE itself doesnt support 9.2 at the enterprise level so no company
that writes software for it will either.

And Red Hat hasnt even released AS4 which will feature the 2.6 kernel,
so look for another year after its release for driver availability and
stability.