Does the PE 1850 take a 64-bit Linux OS?

[Jonathan Dill]

On Apr 24, 2008, at 5:17 PM, SA wrote:

> Can anyone confirm that 64 bit Linux can be installed on a PowerEdge  
> 1850?

I have Ubuntu Dapper LTS x86_64 on two PowerEdge 1850, 2 disks in hw  
RAID1 on PERC 4e/Si.  One is running 64-bit Xen kernel in dom0 with 64- 
bit domU also running Ubuntu Dapper LTS, that server has been up  
continuously for 338 days with no problems, runs jboss in the domU,  
sometimes runs 2nd domU to test changes to jboss before they are  
applied to the "production" domU.  The other runs 2.6.15-51-amd64- 
server, has been rebooted for maintenance (moved to a different subnet  
and changed IP) but no problems.

I think I used the "alternate" install CD but it's been awhile.  If I  
was building it again now, I'd probably go with Gutsy (which has  
become stable for me in testing anyway) with the thought to upgrade  
Hardy in six months or so since that will be the next LTS release.

I do remember problems with running gdm / xorg on the console causing  
the server to lock up because of problems with xorg and the Radeon  
RV100 (which I didn't really mean to do anyway, so I just got rid of  
it).  Of course you can fix that by not running xorg at the console, I  
think you can also fix it by using framebuffer instead of radeon / ati  
driver.

>
>
> I'm especially interested in 64-bit Debian Etch.
>
> But if you've used a 64 bit version of any other distro on an 1850,  
> please
> speak up.
>
> Thanks,
>
> 	JW
>
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