[NTLUG:Discuss] Installing Linux on Dell PowerEdge server

[brad angelcyk]

If you want the OpenManage server administration software, install
Redhat with the discs.  It is quite difficult to get it installed on
your own install.  Other than that, you just need the modules off of
the Dell CD's for the RAID and Network cards, and it should work fine.


On 6/2/05, brian at pongonova.net <brian at pongonova.net> wrote:
> I am undertaking a Linux install on a virgin Dell PowerEdge 1850.  It
> shipped with no O/S, and a bunch of "Server Administration" disks.
> Upon startup, the splashscreens are begging me to install the software
> on said disks prior to my Linux install.
> 
> Question:  Is all this Dell software required?  This server is for
> educational purposes, won't be talking to other Dell servers, and won't
> require remote administration (other than what can be done on the CLI
> via SSH).  I will be installing some flavor of RH, most likely Fedora.
> I'd rather not have a lot of third-party apps to muck up the works if
> I don't need them.
> 
>    --Brian
> 
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