Ossama Othman wrote: > > I wanted to thank Robert Woodcock and everyone who helped me (sorry, I > don't recall their names :( ) for helping me figure out how to boot my > Dell PowerEdge Server 6300. I am now the proud user (not owner, I wish! > :) of a Quad-CPU Xeon Dell system with a gig (960MB with linux lim) of > memory running Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (potato). Now if I could just get the > rest of my colleagues to switch to Debian. :p
Just out of curiosity, how long does it take to compile a kernel on this sucker? (For maximum performance, use the "-j" compiler option.) > The system is _smooth_ and stable! Thanks again for the help and for a > great OS! Btw., are you running a 2.0 or a 2.2 kernel? The 2.2 kernel should give a substantial speed increase, esp. on multiprocessor system. In case you haven't noticed, kernel 2.2.0 was released less than 12 hours ago. -- /'"`\ zzzZ | My PGP Public Key is available at: ( - - ) | <http://home1.inet.tele.dk/renehl/> --oooO--(_)--Oooo------------------------------------------ Don't ya just hate it when there's not enough room to fin