I know that with my poweredge I had to use lilo, grub bombed repeatedly, and admittedly after an hour or so of trying to figure it out I just gave up and used lilo.
But other than that it is up in Debian, happy on its raid 5. -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy T. Bouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 1:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian and Dell? The only problem I can report with Dell will probably have nothing to affect you at all. My Dell experience has been with the PowerEdge servers which I've recently found an issue with GRUB installation from the boot CD when writing to a RAID5 array. Anyone else working with a RAID array trying to install GRUB I'd appreciate any input. Problem I'm seeing is grub-install tries to 'dump' the files back from the /boot partition which may not be cached down to the array yet thus errors out. I'm currently testing a RedHat 9.0 install with GRUB to see if I have the same problem as Dell supports RedHat but not Debian. Regards, Jeremy On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 10:30:34PM -0500, Ed Sutherland wrote: > Hi All, > > I just purchased a Dell for my home office and am interested in using > Debian on a partition. As my only Linux experience comes from a Mac, I > have some questions: > > 1) Will I be able to easily dual-boot Windows or Linux using yaboot, or > will I need to go through some BIOS mumbo-jumbo? > > 2) Does Debian support the Dell flatscreen monitors? > > 3) Does the i86 side of Debian better support Web graphics and animation > formats -- such as shockwave? > > Thanks for the answers. > > Ed > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
