Newbie stuff

[AndydnA]

You can install whatever you prefer!

http://distrowatch.com/

For all my Poweredge servers I use Debian, so this is the name of the  
distro that I recommend to you! :)

Have fun!

AndydnA


On Dec 1, 2008, at 5:15 PM, Mika Silander wrote:

>
> 	  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?
>
> Cheers, Mika