Here we go again.
This is a pretty easy task this time.

1.) Requirements

we need alien for rpm conversion.

now download the rpm:
there already a -17 version, but i installed this some months ago and didnt tried the new one yet.
if someone tried the -17 please let my know.

there 2 ways to install:

2.) The short way


thats it.

3.) The long road

now convert the rpm to tgz with alien.

the installscripts are not really needed, you can execute doinst.sh, it will check if your cpqarray driver is correct.

now copy the files:


done.

4.) Usage

start hpacucli and ready through the help.
its pretty easy.
i used it to add 2 disk to an array.
then extended the logical to full size of the array.
if done this while the system was still running and in normal use.
this took quite some time, but worked very well.
after this i bootet with a rescuedisk and used fdisk and resizefs to extend the partitions.


so who needs the hpacu webinterface, real admins do it commandlinestyle 

All howto's are based on Sarge, unless otherwise mentioned.

interesting


take a look with ldd please if all your libaries are there.

i've running this on sarge with kernel  2.4.27-2-686-smp.

in this case i would blame the kernel.
everything else seems similar.

Ok here is the Solution:

Install  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 or any libstdc++ for gcc 2.95 because te tool is build with 2.95 .


My Insatll way was:

download rpm
extract files via mc from rpm

apt-get install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2

run  the tool.

Distribution: Debian Edge
Kernel:  2.6.13.1

sorry i never tried a smartyarray outside a HP server, possibly the tool checks back that your working on HP hardware or something.

but you should be able to config your array via bios.
while you getting this error:

you should be able to press F8 somewhere there and start the config menu.

I finally made it! For the records I'll say what I did.

I had to put the card and the disks in another machine (a normal pc) that had windows xp installed. From windows, I inserted the "SmartStart CD 5.5 " and opened a program called "CPQACU.EXE". It detects the controller without having to install any drivers for the controller. From there, you have a GUI to do everything you want with your disks.

I hope it's helpful for someone, as I've been googling for this for days and haven't seen it mentioned anywhere.

Regards,
David