Newbie stuff

[Alessandro FAGLIA]

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Subject: Newbie stuff
From: Mika Silander <Mika.Silander at cern.ch>
To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Date: Mon Dec 01 2008 17:15:21 GMT+0100 (ora solare Europa occidentale)
> 	  Hi all,
>
>   Sorry to bother with such a stupid and simple question - I just want to be 
> 100% sure I won't mess up someone else's newly bought PowerEdge T300 (no 
> DRAC). I promised to install Linux on this machine and the owners didn't 
> really feel they wanted any of the commercially supported distributions, 
> rather just a plain server edition Ubuntu. The "Dell Systems Build and Update 
> Utility" doesn't afaics support installing other than the predefined operating 
> systems, Ubuntu not being one of them. So what is the (best) procedure to 
> install Ubuntu? The brute method "boot with install distro's CD" or something 
> else?
>   
You can consider your server as a "conventional" pc, just more reliable 
and powerful ;)

Keeping this in mind you can install whatever you prefer. I'd recommend 
Debian.


Good luck.
Alessandro