Installing on Compaq DL380 type 1

[Tom Wilson]

Bill Campbell wrote:
> I inherited a Compaq Proliant DL380, and would like to install
> Linux on it, but don't have the correct collection of HP/Compaq
> chicken feet and incantations.
> 
> Can somebody point me to the documentation and sources of media
> necessary to exorcise the Windows 2003 that's currently infecting
> its hard drives?
> 
> Bill

We inherited about five of these a couple weeks ago.  They were HMI
servers so all I did was power em on and let them boot into the HMI
software we wrote for them years ago so our engineers could see if they
could get anything useful off them for another project.

Anywho, I'll try to power cycle one tomorrow and see if I notice anyway
to get into the BIOS on one of them.  Maybe some messages are being
suppressed or something on your end and I can see something on one of
mine that may be helpful.

--Tom