On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Camaleón <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:25:19 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > >> On 07/07/11 at 05:17pm, Aniruddha wrote: >>> I wonder if anyone has experience with installing Debian on HP ProLiant >>> DL120 G7. Does it work out-of-the-box? Or are there special drivers >>> necessary to get these working? Officially only Red Hat and Suse are >>> supported although HP does have an Debian page. >>> http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/debian/index.html >> >> IMO, linux is linux. I find it unlikely that RedHat and SuSE have custom >> drivers built in to their kernels that aren't in the main tree. > > It's very common that in these servers, RAID controller drivers -for > instance- are only available for the supported OSes and specific kernel > version so careful with that. > >> I can't say for sure regarding models, but I've installed linux on >> hundreds of HP servers so it's likely to work. >> >> Your best bet is to give it a go and see! > > It looks to me that HP is Debian friendly when it comes to mid-range/high- > end server models (DL-3xx and upper) but for low-end models things change > a lot and depending on the user needs it can be a problem. >
I didn't see your model on the Debian wiki page, but I bet it works anyway. I spoke to one of the HP open source people at a conference and he more or less confirmed that despite the lack of official support from HP, Debian runs on their hardware. For peace of mind, I would look at the potentially odd stuff like the raid controller and make sure you can either run it with open drivers or that a blob is available for it. http://wiki.debian.org/HP/ProLiant -- Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caejohsre9x0t1ykoz81fhstprovsbr7o8kn_jefoey+7iey...@mail.gmail.com
