-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Tom Munro Glass wrote:
> Thanks to all who contributed to my question yesterday about server distros. > I'm now looking at various hardware options including mobos, SCSI and raid. > The problem is that any hardware compatibility lists I find seem to refer to > RedHat 7.x and maybe SuSE but I can't find any mention of RedHat 9, Debian or > Gentoo. As a general rule, if hardware is listed as compatible with "Dist version X", then you can extraolate that in two ways: newer versions of Dist should support it, and distributions based on the same (or later) kernel revision Dist verison X uses should also be supported. Eg, Random Server 2000 is supported on RedHat 6.2, translates into a 2.2 kernel, so any newer version of the kernel than that should have support for the hardware, eg Debian potato or above. Note that in the case of RAID cards, you might still have some problems installing other distributions (eg, Debian is one for this problem) where the RAID card driver insists on implementing it's own block device instead of just appearing as a SCSI device. Some Compaq RAID cards fall into that problem. - -- David Zanetti | (__) #include <geek/unix.h> | ( oo Mooooooo http://hairy.geek.nz/ | /(_O ./ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iD8DBQE/VrOIT21+qRy4P+QRAi0wAJ9ojt9JhBmIFIqHnAwcgkwvEkdCkwCfWFm8 tu9XMZ7u3m2we6w+KR/iyBw= =trnt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
