Re: Debian dedicated server (provider)?
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:36:59PM +0000, Steffan Davies wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I'm currently managing a small fleet of Stable and Testing systems for
> my employer, which live at Servermatrix.
>
> On trying to order some new machines, I learn that Debian is no longer
> supported by them for new installs, due apparently to "incompatibilities
> with newer hardware". They are strikingly reluctant to give any further
> technical details, but this covers at least a dual-core Opteron with an
> LSI53C1030 SCSI controller (I have dmesg from Red Hat on this machine if
> anyone's interested) as well as Core 2 Duo machines.
>
My guess is that the server has stuff that Sarge (current stable)
doesn't work with. Etch may (I would guess will). However, Etch isn't
stable so a server maker isn't going to support that.
Why not make an Etch netinst.iso and take it to the server and try it?
Doug.
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