On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 14:56 -0500, Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm plan on installing Debian 3.1 (2.4.27 kernel) on a Dell PE2800 server > soon (just waiting for a few more pieces of equip. to arrive) and while I > have used Debian a little bit in the past, I've never installed in on a > server before. I was hoping somebody who has done this before can give me > some tips/info on the following: > > 1) does/will Debian have issues if I use the hw RAID controller on the > Dell server?
like the perc4i raid controller? > 2) the server will have dual Xeon processors and 8GB of RAM, does > Debian suppor this? (I've read in some places that Debian doesn't support > > 4GB of RAM, etc. but I haven't been able to get a definite answer to that > from googling) download the deb of the kernel you want to run (probably and SMP variant). use 'ar' to unarchive it (google for this). then look at the file 'boot/config-blah' with less or vi or whatever. # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y look for those lines. if CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y and CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y are set, you are gold. -matt zagrabelny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
