Re: [ILUG] ISO Images & Linux on a Poweredge 2300

From: Thomas Bridge (thomas at domain medianet.ie)
Date: Wed 06 Oct 1999 - 16:47:48 IST


On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Robert Sweetnam wrote:

> At the Mo' Im planning to install Linux onto a Dell Poweredge 2300 with 2 x
> PII 450, 1GB of RAM and a Dell
> Perc 2 RAID Controller, but I have a couple of questions that I'd be
> grateful if anyone could answer,
> Im thinking of using SuSE, RedHat or FreeBSD (out of curiosity)
 
> 1. If anyone has set up linux using similar hardware, could you please help
> me out with any relevent information, eg. Linux Support for the Perc, RAID
> support etc.
 
I recently installed RedHat 5.2 on a Poweredge 2300 - first thing I had to
do was recompile the kernel to support SMP, but I think RH6.0 has support
for SMP in its default install.

We didn't use a RAID controller though.

T.

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