A little bit of sneakiness in the hardware spec areas is helpful when you're brand name shopping. If you can get a list of the hardware in the machine, just chase down the drivers for individual components with google.
Also, generally what you'll find is that if a machine will support one flavor of Linux, it supports them all -- the drivers are in the kernel (Though not necessarily on the stock boot disk one!).
HTH,
Matt
At 16:20 19/02/2003, you wrote:
Howdy Folks, A client is about to do a rollout of linux appservers across their wan, and they're trying to find brand-name servers (aka compaq/dell) which will run debian without a lot of screwing around.. They're running HP DL380G2's at the moment for their Windows machines, but apparently HP aren't being very helpful about whether there is linux support for the hardware in the boxes..I'm wondering if any of you are running debian (or one of the other non-redhat-fuzzy-warm-feeling-rpm-based distro's) on HP/compaq/dell hardware? And if so, what the install was like? I'm certainly up for dropping a custom-compiled kernel onto the install CD to let us install onto RAID, but the client doesn't want to go to the hassle.. (plus I think i've finally talked him out of needing raid for a box that'll never use the HDD once the app is loaded.. :) Cheers, Damien -- Damien Gardner Jnr VK2TDG. Dip EE. StudIEAust Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.rendrag.net/ Play: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://pinegap.net/ Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.isa.net.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
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