On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:25:19 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > On 07/07/11 at 05:17pm, Aniruddha wrote: >> I wonder if anyone has experience with installing Debian on HP ProLiant >> DL120 G7. Does it work out-of-the-box? Or are there special drivers >> necessary to get these working? Officially only Red Hat and Suse are >> supported although HP does have an Debian page. >> http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/debian/index.html > > IMO, linux is linux. I find it unlikely that RedHat and SuSE have custom > drivers built in to their kernels that aren't in the main tree.
It's very common that in these servers, RAID controller drivers -for instance- are only available for the supported OSes and specific kernel version so careful with that. > I can't say for sure regarding models, but I've installed linux on > hundreds of HP servers so it's likely to work. > > Your best bet is to give it a go and see! It looks to me that HP is Debian friendly when it comes to mid-range/high- end server models (DL-3xx and upper) but for low-end models things change a lot and depending on the user needs it can be a problem. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.07.15.33...@gmail.com
