debian on dell distro

[Andrew Moise]

On 11/1/06, Rob Munsch <rmunsch at solutionsforprogress.com> wrote:
> I know Dell lists some Debian images
> http://linux.dell.com/distributions.shtml
> that run, but they're gone; Scott Kveton's 2.4.25 link, frex, is toast.
> Is anyone mirroring this anywhere?
>
> Lastly, has anyone tried lately with a Debian 2.6 on any poweredge with
> a PERC?  I'm probably about to, so i'll let you know of any great
> successes / horrifically funny failures.

  I installed sarge on a PE 2950 recently.  I used the updated sarge
installer Robert mentioned; it's at http://kmuto.jp/b.cgi/debian/ (and
I see there's a more recent one with 2.6.18 now), since the sarge
netinst installer couldn't drive the network card.
  I had problems (frequent RESETs under heavy write load) with the
megaraid_sas driver with my PERC 5i when I used 2.6.16.  They may be
solved in the more recent kernels; I haven't checked yet.  There's a
gross hack to get it working on 2.6.16, but I'd recommend a more
recent kernel.
  Other than that it's been working great for me.