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    • scottalanmiller
      scottalanmiller last edited by

      Got an old PE2950. Wanted to get Fedora 30 on there, but it didn't load. Anyone know a current Linux that is known to work on there?

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      • EddieJennings
        EddieJennings last edited by

        Tried CentOS?

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        • scottalanmiller
          scottalanmiller @EddieJennings last edited by

          @EddieJennings said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

          Tried CentOS?

          Not yet, was hoping to avoid it. We've only tried Fedora 30 so far because the KVM (physical KVM, not virtualization) died and we can't mount an ISO anymore.

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          • Pete.S
            Pete.S last edited by Pete.S

            A while back I had an old HP server, G5 I think, where Fedora and CentOS wouldn't install. Debian 9 did fine though so I would try Debian. I always do the install in text-mode (not graphical) BTW.

            Download the netinstall image and select below options for a minimal install with SSH.
            debian-install.png

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            • Pete.S
              Pete.S last edited by Pete.S

              BTW, here is a guide how to install it if you need to guide a remote hand to do it.
              https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/debian-minimal-server/

              It installs much faster than fedora & centos, maybe because it has less packages in the base install.

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              • scottalanmiller
                scottalanmiller last edited by

                Ubuntu 19.04 worked like a charm.

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                • Pete.S
                  Pete.S @scottalanmiller last edited by

                  @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                  Ubuntu 19.04 worked like a charm.

                  Good, it makes sense.

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                  • dbeato
                    dbeato last edited by

                    Debian 9 and 18.04 have been working. i have a couple of them and others with xcpng too

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                    • Obsolesce
                      Obsolesce @scottalanmiller last edited by

                      @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                      Ubuntu 19.04 worked like a charm.

                      I know Windows Server 2008 R2 works on them too lol.

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                      • jt1001001
                        jt1001001 last edited by

                        was just looking at what my coworker installed on our "spare" 2950 here; Debian 9 no issues. He hasn't tried Fedora/Centos or SUSE yet.

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                          dyasny last edited by

                          How did it (the fedora installation) fail? Sounds weird to me, those machines are ~2007-ish, but they have decent SAS interfaces and okay-ish xeons (for their time).

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                          • travisdh1
                            travisdh1 @scottalanmiller last edited by

                            @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                            Ubuntu 19.04 worked like a charm.

                            Did you even try Debian? Why torture yourself?

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                            • scottalanmiller
                              scottalanmiller @travisdh1 last edited by

                              @travisdh1 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                              @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                              Ubuntu 19.04 worked like a charm.

                              Did you even try Debian? Why torture yourself?

                              Because it's for production.

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                              • travisdh1
                                travisdh1 @scottalanmiller last edited by

                                @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                @travisdh1 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                Ubuntu 19.04 worked like a charm.

                                Did you even try Debian? Why torture yourself?

                                Because it's for production.

                                How is Ubuntu more production ready than Debian?

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                                • scottalanmiller
                                  scottalanmiller @travisdh1 last edited by

                                  @travisdh1 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                  How is Ubuntu more production ready than Debian?

                                  Support is generally considered an important thing for production. Primary vendor support, even if you don't pay for it and only maintain it as an option, is considered a hallmark of consideration for being in production. Think about Windows 7 and how people talk about it "going out of support" next year and what a big deal that is. But Debian has no support at all, so is in many ways similar to running Windows 7 many years down the road (without the part about being out of date.)

                                  You can't use the "it's out of support" logic and "Debian is production ready" because it's conflicting. Ubuntu is basically Debian with enterprise backing.

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                                  • RojoLoco
                                    RojoLoco @travisdh1 last edited by

                                    @travisdh1 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                    @travisdh1 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                    Ubuntu 19.04 worked like a charm.

                                    Did you even try Debian? Why torture yourself?

                                    Because it's for production.

                                    How is Ubuntu more production ready than Debian?

                                    A better question - how is that antique server ready for production???

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                                    • scottalanmiller
                                      scottalanmiller @RojoLoco last edited by

                                      @RojoLoco said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                      @travisdh1 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                      @travisdh1 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                      Ubuntu 19.04 worked like a charm.

                                      Did you even try Debian? Why torture yourself?

                                      Because it's for production.

                                      How is Ubuntu more production ready than Debian?

                                      A better question - how is that antique server ready for production???

                                      Not my choice, that bit is insane.

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                                      • RojoLoco
                                        RojoLoco @scottalanmiller last edited by

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                        @RojoLoco said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                        @travisdh1 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                        @travisdh1 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                        Ubuntu 19.04 worked like a charm.

                                        Did you even try Debian? Why torture yourself?

                                        Because it's for production.

                                        How is Ubuntu more production ready than Debian?

                                        A better question - how is that antique server ready for production???

                                        Not my choice, that bit is insane.

                                        We have a few here, when they finally go away, I'm calling in scientists to carbon date the internal components and look for microscopic fossils inside.

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                                        • DustinB3403
                                          DustinB3403 last edited by

                                          Does this server have Pentium II's?

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                                          • scottalanmiller
                                            scottalanmiller @DustinB3403 last edited by

                                            @DustinB3403 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

                                            Does this server have Pentium II's?

                                            Might as well.

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