NX1950 (PE1950 with MD3000) and MD Storage Manager with Debian

[S. J. van Harmelen]

To answer my own question:

It's actualy quite easy to set this up. Just don't try to convert the
rpm packages using alien, this wouldn't work.

Just use rpm -i --nodeps *.rpm and off you go...

Sander


On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 14:41 +0200, S. J. van Harmelen wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I trying to get a NX1950 system up and running with Debian (4.0 64bit).
> I allready found the converted .deb packages for OMSA 5.2 and these work
> great.
> 
> But now I'm stuck on the MD3000 tools. There is a PERC 5/E SAS HBA card
> in the server that's connected to the MD3000. So I found some tools from
> Dell that should control the MD3000 but I can't get these tools
> installed.
> 
> I'm talking about the MD Storage Manager. This (just as the OMSA
> package) is only available in .rpm packages. Anybody managed to get this
> working on Debian? Anyone converted the packages?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Sander
> 
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