Good morning!
I'm about to buy 6 boxes with the Tyan Tomcat i7221A mainboard in it. The client wants to run Debian. Now .. I don't know a lot about the hardwaresupport in Debian. Can someone advise me on this? Will this box install withthe latest stable install CD?
The full specs can be found here: http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tomcati7221a_spec.html
The short answer is probably all the basics will be fine (compatibility of processor, IDEs, SATAs - maybe, LANs, video). Long answer is that sooner or later, depending on the apps the clients want installed, something might not work "perfectly" and you might have to cobble together a work around.
Simplest solution that crosses my mind would be to test drive one of the boxes with a Knoppix, Ubuntu or other LiveCD first (ideally a distro with the apps that most closely match your client's needs). In a perfect world, your vendor would be more than happy to make your purchase of these boxes conditional on getting these LiveCDs to run okay.
Rob