Re: [Efw-user] Dell Server

[compdoc <co...@ho...>]

I often have troubles installing an SMP version of some distros. I get kernel
panics after the install, on the first boot. 

If that does happen, you can just install in uni-processor mode. It wastes the
power of one of the cpus, but should run fine otherwise...



-----Original Message-----
From: efw...@li...
[mailto:efw...@li...] On Behalf Of Mike Tremaine
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 11:21 AM
To: efw...@li...
Subject: Re: [Efw-user] Dell Server

compdoc wrote:
> Should work, though unless you have a lot of users, dual cpus might be more
> trouble than it's worth. 
> 
> I can't speak to efw, because I haven't tried it, but some distros are more
> difficult to set up on dual cpu/core systems.
> 
> Just need to try it...
> 
> 

Should not have any trouble with Dual CPU endian has provided the SMP 
kernels since 2.0. The biggest issue with Dell, HP whoever is really 
Hardware RAID, sometimes NIC's and always onboard sensors. If you do not 
use the hardware RAID and instead go with software RAID you are usually 
ok. Verify the NIC works and just give up on any cool sensors the thing 
might normally have under windows.

-Mike

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