[NTLUG:Discuss] Installing Linux on Dell PowerEdge server

[Victor Brilon]

Very often Dell includes useful BIOS utilities on
those disks, which you actually do need. I am not
familiar with that particular PowerEdge model, but I'd
suspect those server disks at least contain the BIOS
stuff for the RAID drives.

Can't hurt to try and install it and then do a Linux
install.

--- 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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