NICE! We've long since ebay'd the 2550s and 2650s... but I just couldn't throw away two 2450s that never had a single hiccup during their tenure in our racks.
SJ -----Original Message----- From: Ronan Mullally [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 7:36 AM To: Steve Jenkins Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: For you other Linux "recyclers" out there Hi Steve, On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Steve Jenkins wrote: > For those of you like to "recycle" your old servers, I just did a > successfully netinstall of CentOS 5.5 (32-bit) on an old PowerEdge 2450. > X runs fine (monitor refresh rate was wonky until I updated X-server > with yum), as does everything else. Over the past decade, we've replaced > our 2450s with 2550s, then 2650s, then 2850s, and now we run 2950s. But > the 2450s were actually the most reliable of the bunch... and it's nice > to see they can still serve a purpose. As long as that purpose isn't > memory or processor intensive. J You are not alone ;-) Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 25 bytes System Information Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation Product Name: PowerEdge 2450 15:34:20 up 301 days, 3:19, 6 users, load average: 1.06, 1.22, 1.25 -Ronan _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
