Hi,
Maybe the question has been asked already and I could find one of the
posts by Wouter Verhelst where he has mentioned about some kind of installer
which can be used for Hardware Compatibility Testing. I need to deploy
Debian for purpose of running a web service based application on JBoss. My
first worries are about purchase of hardware for this project and I am
pretty much stuck up as no major vendor except HP is providing support for
Debian and pushing the idea of installing a unsupported OS to top management
would not be an easy task as well. Is there any way in which I can be
assured and hence push my top management to move to Debian despite it not
being supported by major hardware vendors ? I know that's more of a
management issue then technical but if there is someway through which I can
find compatibility of Debian with different servers provided by various
vendors (primarily HP, Dell and IBM) then it would be really helpful for me
in decision making. I tried to install Debian 5.0 on a HCL Infinity Global
Line 2700 series server and the installation went hassle free, however when
I did lspci -n and tried to verify the compatibility using the web based
utility provided at http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl I was surprised to see
several hardware components as not being supported. Can I consider the
report displayed by http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl as final and dump my idea of
installation of Debian or will the lack of support for some of the drivers
won't have much effect on functioning of my system. This is the question
which is worrying me the most as of now, because I don't want my servers to
hang up in middle of operations at later stage and it would be really nice
if someone can help me out on this front.
Also if possible please let me know how to find which all hardware is
supported by a specific kernel. For e.g. I'm using kernel 2.6.22-3-486 and
would like to know which all hardware components does it support. If there
is someway to find a categorical list of such hardware components then that
would be lot more helpful.
Thanking you for your kind concern.
Regards,
Mayank
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Today is tommorrow I was so worried about yesterday ...
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