DRAC configuration

Tom Brown tom at ng23.net
Wed Aug 1 10:53:06 CDT 2007


> I have a PE6300 with a DRAC 2 in it, and it is running FC4. I know 
> this is unsupported, as FC runs a 2.6 kernel and there are no drivers 
> for the DRAC 2 and kernel 2.6. However, it seems to me that at least 
> some of the DRAC’s capabilities can not rely on the host operating 
> system, as this would render the card pointless, right? So my question 
> is this: Is there any way to create some sort of boot disk or livecd 
> that is running a pre-2.6 distro of some sort and that also has the 
> management utilities for the DRAC in order to configure the card and 
> get it to a somewhat working state?
>
configure it from the console at boot time ?



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