HPE ProLiant ML10 Gen9 Server -solved

[william drescher]

On 10/12/2017 7:36 AM, william drescher wrote:
> My development server motherboard died.  So this time, instead of 
> getting an old windows machine out and making it a server I 
> decided to buy new.
> I bought a  HPE ProLiant ML10 Gen9 Server without disks or OS.
> When I started to install 14.04* LTS I got as far as configuring 
> the NIC and the install said that no NIC was installed.
> OK, thinks I, driver problem.  To the HPE website.  They have a 
> driver for Red Hat or SUSE, but even if I download it for a try I 
> can't figure out how to merge it with the 14.04 install disk.
> 
> Thoughts/Suggestions ?
> 
> 
> *I am staying with 14.04 until I get a huge php legacy 
> application converted to PHP7
> bill
> 
> 

Going to 16.4 LTS solved the problems.
Now I have 2 questions that I will post separately.