Debian Etch on PowerEdge SC1435

[David Sparks]

> Can anybody share their experience (good or bad) with Debian on a
> PowerEdge SC1435?

Looking past Debian the drawback of running any non-RPM distro on Dell
hardware is no OMSA, or a involved process installing OMSA.  The "drivers" for
all hardware is in the mainline kernel.

Like you said, if you want to run the diagnostics of OMSA, boot from a LiveCD.
 Hardware monitoring can be done via IPMI and MegaCli so I'm not even sure
what OMSA provides.  I don't miss it but maybe I don't know what I'm missing?

Cheers,

ds