Linux on PE 6400

[Jefferson Cowart]

>From what I've been told you will have driver problems with the PERC 2/3 in 4th gen servers on Windows 2008. (I haven't actually tried.)

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Thank You
Jefferson Cowart
Network and Systems Administrator
Claremont University Consortium



-----Original Message-----
From: andy thomas [mailto:andy at time-domain.co.uk]
Sent: Fri 5/22/2009 8:06 AM
To: Jefferson Cowart
Cc: linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: RE: Linux on PE 6400
 
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Jefferson Cowart wrote:

> While I can't speak to the 6400 specifically, I run Debian Lenny (5.0) on other 4th gen servers. (specifically 2450s)

Yes, I've got Slackware 10 running on a PE 2450 at home and there are a 
couple of these at the client's site that may move from Win2k to Linux.

Basically, the client's newer 1950 servers are about to be upgraded from 
Win2k3 to Win2k8, some of the older 2450's will move from Win2k to Win2k3 
but as no-one seems to know for sure if the 2450 and 6400 servers will run 
Win2k8 (and I can't do a test installation as they are all in use), I'm 
just assuming they won't run Win2k8 and we can make use of them for other 
things running Linux.

Thanks for the comments.

Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: andy thomas <andy at time-domain.co.uk>
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 04:56
> To: linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com <linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com>
> Subject: Linux on PE 6400
>
> Does anyone know if a fairly modern version of Linux will install without
> too much difficulty on a PowerEdge 6400? Ordinarily I would attempt to
> install a recent version of SuSE/Slackware/Fedora, etc on this system but
> it's currently a production Windows 2000 server and can't be disturbed
> just yet.
>
> Andy
>
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