> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 06:00:17 -0800
> From: fredddy@cableone.net
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: [Fwd: Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860]
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860
> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 19:07:45 -0500 (EST)
> From: rhelas rhelas <rhelas_rhelas@yahoo.ca>
> To: fredddy@cableone.net
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> shut ur mouth.
>
> Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net> wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-08 at
10:09 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:23:15PM +0100, Ben Humpert wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > since im using Debian, the installer is not able to find the
sata-controller used in DELL PowerEdge 850 and 860 Servers. i started
with 31r0a and currently tried it with 31r5, each was 32bit for i386.
Now im trying the 31r5 for ia64 (server is capable of that).
> > >
> >
> > use the etch installer. sarge doesn't generally support SATA while
> > etch does. Etch will be released "any time now" and is already getting
> > security support and is very usable.
> >
> > A
>
> Agreed. I just did an Etch install on a server with SATA drives. I
> used the daily build of the Etch installer from the 5th of this month
> and it went flawlessly. The Etch installer is one of the best
> installers out there as far as I'm concerned.
>
Thanks. I really should block yahoo completely, only get spam from
*@yahoo <mailto:*@yahoo>.* ;)
Thanks to everybody. etch is working on 850/860. An yes, ia64 is
itanium, not EM64T like the DELL 850/860 are, my fault - perhaps this is
the reason why its not a bootable image ;)
Etch is looking more like a desktop as a server OS, isnt it? on sarge
only the minimum is selected and installed, eg. ssh server but no GUI.
On etch i had to deselect the desktop environment, standard system i
left selected, thought its a must have.
my dell PE 860 has a Intel DualCore Xeon with hyper-threading, my Dell
PE 850 only has a Intel P4 with HT. On both i only see two processors
(for sure, the dualcore has two physical core, P4 only one physical and
one logical). Why i dont see four cores on my DualCore? DO i need a
special kernel-image or something?