Yes, they do need to be upgraded, but they had custom kernels, and I am not going through that again. Besides, they are pretty much closed evironments, and are just there for file sharing.
I want Dell because they are cheaper. I would love IBM's, but usually wouldn't be able to afford such. By patches, do you mean its already included on the CD and I don't have to load anything special? Jason On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 07:20 +0200, Vidar Tyldum Hansen wrote: > Jason C. Greb wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 21:03 -0400, Jason C. Greb wrote: > > > >> I need to get a server for a client. I am either going to build my > >> own, or get one from Dell. The one I want from Dell is the SC430. > >> It has Onboard SATA. Does anyone know if this is supported? I've > >> asked a customer service rep at Dell what the chipset is, but they > >> don't know what I am talking about. Can anyone help me? > > Any particular reason for Dell? I have very good experience with IBM > servers (namely xSeries 236). > > > I think I may have found out the chipset: > > > > Intel ICH7R. Also, what do you recommened, 2.2, or 3.0? I am not looking > > for the latest and greatest, just something that works, and that I never > > have to touch again. I have about (4) Trustix 2.1 servers out there, and > > I NEVER get calls on them having problems. > > The chipset seems supported, at least there is patches in the 2.4 > kernels for it. I would recommend TSL 3, but 2.2 is still the stable > version. > > Your TSL 2.1 servers must be upgraded, TSL 2.1 is EOL'ed and will not > recieve any more updates. Upgrading vanilla 2.1 to 2.2 using swup should > be painless. -- Jason C. Greb ElectroNerdz, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.electronerdz.com/ P.O. Box 6556 Lakeland, FL 33807 Voice: 863-709-0204 Cell: 863-860-0985 Fax: 863-709-0506 --- Linux? Yes it can. Here's a nickel kid, go buy a real OS. _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
