Finally a response that make sense.
To the original question I have over 150 servers .. 2950s, 1950s, r610s, r710s
and run ubuntu karmic and lucid and only issue I have is a rootdelay option I
had to add on the ones that have the sas perc6 cards.
Also the new Dell omsa 6.3 packages rock. Also
On 7 Sep 2010, at 12:18, Johan Sjöberg wrote:
> These "enterprise" distros are generally very bloated. Who wants Bluetooth
> support and a desktop environment on a server? You need to do a lot af
> deselecting when installing RHEL/CentOS to get a reasonably slim
> installation. And you are a
> -Original Message-
> From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-
> boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of John Hodrien
> Sent: den 7 september 2010 13:42
> To: linux-poweredge@dell.com
> Subject: RE: Advice for a debian server
>
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2
Am Di, 7.09.2010, 13:50 schrieb Davide Ferrari:
> On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 12:41 +0100, John Hodrien wrote:
>> Absolutely. And to throw the inverse into the mix, it's not like
>> Debian
>> doesn't benefit from the work done by Redhat or other commercial linux
>> vendors.
>
> That's the point of the
On 07/09/10 13:15, Michael Zoet wrote:
> So I really do not understand the point of this discussion.
Michael,
The point of this discussion is that you get to see who has got their
head screwed on properly, and whose opinion you should take with a pinch
of salt in the future, ie. those who foam at
On Tue, September 7, 2010 06:44, Morten P.D. Stevens wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Tim Connors
> wrote:
>
>>
>> But if you know what you're doing, often debian is better. Depends on
>> your needs and skills. We run debian fine here, with no difficulty
>> talking to the raid cards and
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 12:41 +0100, John Hodrien wrote:
> Absolutely. And to throw the inverse into the mix, it's not like
> Debian
> doesn't benefit from the work done by Redhat or other commercial linux
> vendors.
That's the point of the F/LOSS ecosystem, isn't it? :)
--
Davide Ferrari
System
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Johan Sjöberg wrote:
Well, that's a nice flamebait if I ever saw one...
Quite, but that doesn't mean you need to rise to it.
These "enterprise" distros are generally very bloated. Who wants Bluetooth
support and a desktop environment on a server?
A single kickstart for
On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Johan Sjöberg wrote:
> Well, that's a nice flamebait if I ever saw one...
>
> These "enterprise" distros are generally very bloated. Who wants Bluetooth
> support and a desktop environment on a server? You need to do a lot af
> deselecting when installing RHEL/CentOS t
: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-
> boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Morten P.D. Stevens
> Sent: den 7 september 2010 12:44
> To: linux-poweredge@dell.com
> Subject: RE: Advice for a debian server
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Tim Connors
> wrote:
>
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 12:44 +0200, Morten P.D. Stevens wrote:
>
> FYI:
>
> RHEL is a commercial enterprise linux distri and debian is a not reliable
> opensource project with hobby developers.
Most of your average server side free/open source software is|were
developed by hobby developers, so
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Tim Connors wrote:
>
> But if you know what you're doing, often debian is better. Depends on
> your needs and skills. We run debian fine here, with no difficulty
> talking to the raid cards and hardware sensors etc that we use, and
> because debian is a far bette
On 07/09/10 02:01, Tim Connors wrote:
> because debian is a far better quality distribution than redhat (and thus
> centos)
Without wishing to start a distro war, that statement is simply not
correct. I'm not dissing debian - it is a great distro - but it's not
"far better quality" than RHEL. Ind
On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Morten P.D. Stevens
> wrote:
> > Hi Emmanuel,
> >
> > my suggestion is to use CentOS with Dell Poweredge servers. All Dell
> > Poweredge machines are certified for RHEL and CentOS is 100% binary
> > compatible with RHEL.
ve Baroti
> Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 10:05 PM
> To: linux-poweredge@dell.com
> Subject: Re: Advice for a debian server
>
> Remember, please skip S100/S300 controllers, at my knowledge they are
> not
> supported:
> https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-19840
Remember, please skip S100/S300 controllers, at my knowledge they are not
supported:
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-19840
SB.
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From: "Tapas Mishra"
To:
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 13:13
Subject: Re: Advice for a debian server
> On Mon, S
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Morten P.D. Stevens
wrote:
> Hi Emmanuel,
>
> my suggestion is to use CentOS with Dell Poweredge servers. All Dell
> Poweredge machines are certified for RHEL and CentOS is 100% binary
> compatible with RHEL.
>
> If you need without fail a debian based linux dist
> -Original Message-
> From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-
> boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Emmanuel Lesouef
> Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 2:58 PM
> To: linux-poweredge@dell.com
> Subject: Advice for a debian server
>
> Hi,
>
> Read
My reply will not directly answer your question.
I have had n number of problems using Debian.
Many different type of issues.
Search for Ubuntu and your Dell Server Model number there is a high
probability that Canonical team would have done their calculations and
all the things will work,
On Mon,
info:
http://wiki.debian.org/HP/ProLiant#Needbnx2firmware
/Johan
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From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Tim Small
Sent: den 6 september 2010 18:02
To: Emmanuel Lesouef
Cc: linux-poweredge@dell.com
Subject: Re: Advice fo
On 06/09/10 13:57, Emmanuel Lesouef wrote:
> Reading this list, I sometimes see threads complaining about
> compatibility issue between recent Dell servers and Debian GNU/Linux.
>
> What is the most stable and compatible model in order to install Debian
> Stable (Lenny) ?
>
Anything without a
We have poweredge R710's, plus 2850, 2950, and others all running Lenny 5.0.6.
Our servers have the PERC model raid cards.
It's primarily Lenny with additional packages from squeeze as necessary. (using
apt preferences to pin specific packages to squeeze)
Joe
On Sep 6, 2010, at 9:00 AM, "Emma
Acctually I do have debian lenny7 running fine on R810 (which cames with
PERC H700), used netinstall
# cat version.info
Debian version: 5.0 (lenny)
Installer build: 20090123lenny7
and yes I added bnx2 firmware manually
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/NetbootFirmware
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Dependable on what you want,
If you want one of the new raid cards in your server, H700 or H200 (I've
even heard the S100 and S300 have problems with debian) You don't want
Debian, or you want Debian Squeeze.
When you go for a server in the R x10 serie, you will most likely face
problems with th
Hi,
Reading this list, I sometimes see threads complaining about
compatibility issue between recent Dell servers and Debian GNU/Linux.
What is the most stable and compatible model in order to install Debian
Stable (Lenny) ?
Thanks for your advices.
--
Emmanuel Lesouef
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