[ILUG] Dell Poweredge - best distro

[Colm Buckley]

On Thursday 02 May 2002 08:58, Fergal Moran wrote:

> I have a Dell Poweredge with an Adaptec AIC-7899 Ultra160/m SCSI card
> and a PERC 3/Di RAID controller (I believe drivers for both of these are
> available on Dells site) which I'm going to cleanse of Windows as our
> linux boxen are straining at the moment and this is only serving up the
> odd word doc here and there.  So I am looking for some advice on the
> best distro for it.  It's a production machine so there is no time for
> fannying about with the awkward distros.    It must be completed today
> so I need something that will go on quickly and painlessly and hopefully
> in such a way that no-one will notice the difference.
>
> I have this anti-redhat leaning which I'm not sure is justified but 7.1
> badly broke one of our own server products and I've never really
> forgiven it.  Is it time to move on and try 7.2?

I installed Debian on very similar boxes to these (I assume it's a
PowerEdge 2550, given the PERC3/Di) with no trouble - however I needed
to install additional drivers for the PERC (it's on Dell's site, and
it's in the stock Linux kernel from 2.4.8 or thereabouts).

*However*, Dell support Red Hat Linux on the PowerEdge range, so
there's considerable commercial comfort with going with RedHat,
especially if you're not familiar with Debian.

              Colm

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