Paul Sargent wrote: > > Hi People, > > Has anybody had any experiance running Debian on a Dell PowerEdge 2500. > We've just bought one that has RedHat preinstalled on it, but I'm lothed to > administer RedHat (for one thing it installs so much cr*p that I really do > not want on a server), and so want to change it for Debian, just like the > rest of our boxes. > > I'm a little concerned though that Dell seem to supply their own specially > tweaked version of RedHat, and I'm wondering if that's to support things > like the RAID controller (currently set-up as a RAID-5 four disk array), or > other bits of funny hardware that might be in there. > > So...Does anybody have any experience with these boxes?
Yes, I've set up one 2500 and a few 2550 at work. Unless something changed in unstable, you will need a patched kernel to detect the Perc3/Di chip they use. You can find the diskimage I use at http://emil.its.uu.se:8080/DELL/ (the on ending in .dd), and there's also a slight newer (2.4.9) patched kernel source (make clean/distclean). I use that disk together with the potato (r0 I think) CD's) to install, then update the kernel and other stuff I need (we need support for >2G files, thus forced out of potato/stable). You can probably find newer patches if you google a bit, since my disk work for me I leave it there. If you're lazy start with: http://www.domsch.com/linux/ Good luck! // Emil > > Thanks > > Paul > -- > Paul Sargent > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > 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]
