Debian on a PowerEdge 1950

[Terry Gliedt]

Bill Webster wrote:
> We are looking at getting the PowerEdge 1950 and running Debian on it.
> Were you able to get it working? I would appreciate any pointers you can
> give me on installation and configuration?

I started on this and then got distracted. Debian sarge (what we run 
right now) will not boot because the boot kernel doesn't work properly. 
You may have better luck with this guy's work:

http://kmuto.jp/b.cgi/debian/d-i-2616.htm

I was able to get the latest Ubuntu to install.

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Terry Gliedt     tpg at umich.edu       http://www.hps.com/~tpg/
Biostatistics, Univ of Michigan  Personal Email:  tpg at hps.com