Solved - Re: How/where do I get hponcfg for Ubuntu 24?

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 at 22:21, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:

> I was
> struggling with AlmaLinux on my HPE Gen10+ and could not get it to set
> up Raid.

If I may be so direct, you are making several small mistakes here that
you consistently keep making.

You are not being specific enough, and sometimes are specific about
the wrong things... and you are not looking for root causes.

1. HPE is a company. "Gen 10" is a generation. Generation of what?

2. Alma Linux is a distro. What _version_ of Alma? That is really important!

3. RAID -- what kind of RAID? Software RAID, kernel RAID, hardware
RAID, firmware RAID?

4. I own an HP Microserver Gen 8.

(Ignore HP vs HPE. Doesn't matter. Think about what is important, not
what isn't. Company mergers and stuff are noise., Filter the noise.
Seek the signal. HP _what_ gen 10 is much more important than if it is
HP or HPE.)

I know from my Microserver that it has a complex setup with Integrated
Lights-Out Management. (ILO). It's a nuisance. We don't need it in a
home server but it's hard to turn off. This is why stuff like _what
model_ is important, and stuff like whether HP or HPE isn't.

You haven't isolated what the problem was but you know there was one,
so you switched distros? Bad plan, because if you don't know where it
is, you don't know if you will take the issue with you or not.

[...]

> So now I have 5 boxes running Ubuntu.  4 are zboxnanos and one the Gen10+.

Oh, yes, you mentioned them before, but again, you were not _and are
not_ being specific. Who or what is a Zbox? What is a nano? I googled
them last time and there are lots of models and you're not telling us
which one

> I will continue with Fedora on my notebook

OK, so, why?

If you are going to move then move.

Dual boot both. Share the /home partition. It's easy.
 but now all my servers are

> I go back to Whitehat.

I go back to Red Hat Linux 4 in about 1996. I tried others, found
better, and junked it much earlier.

But I am not advocating switching. It is often better to stay with
what you know.

> Probably now I could swing it.  But, at least for now, I am trying to
> live with Ubuntu and not dealing too much with its Debian roots.

You kind of can't. Ubuntu is based on Debian. You need to know both.

> And I will need many  boxes for the PKI.  Being able to roll this in
> Ubuntu may be critical for adoption.

Are you _sure_ you need this?

I've been a Unix techie for nearly 40 years and I go out of my way to
_not_ have to host and run public-facing infra.

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