Installing 32-bit Linux on old PE6300

[Tom Brown]

>> Can anyone suggest what I might try to most easily get a 32-bit Linux
>> operating system installed on this host?
>>     
>
> I have re-purposed several old Dell's in the past.
>
> I would check Dell's support site under that model and make sure to
> update every BIOS and firmware in the system.  
>
> My preference would be to use a RHEL flavor of Linux.  If this server is
> using a PERC from that time period I would pick a distribution that used
> a 2.4 kernel.  I would probably try CentOS v3.
>
>   


Yes - an old 6400, i think, would not take CentOS 3 until i had updated 
the PERC2's firmware - Since then its been great at what its good for.