Ako pokušate instalirati Debian GNU/Linux Woody distribuciju na Dellove poslužitelje PowerEdge, imat ćete problema s nestandardnim hardverom za kojeg nema podrške na instalacijskom medijiu.

Rješenje je posebno pripremljen Debian NetInst CD s podrškom za Dellov hardver. ISO preslika tog instalacijskog medija je na adresi:
http://ftp.carnet.hr/pub/misc/portal-repozitorij/debian-dell-2.4.28.iso

Podržani su skoro svi poslužitelji iz PowerEdge serije:

* PowerEdge 400SC
* PowerEdge 420SC
* PowerEdge 600SC
* PowerEdge 650
* PowerEdge 700
* PowerEdge 750
* PowerEdge 800
* PowerEdge 1400
* PowerEdge 1550
* PowerEdge 1650
* PowerEdge 1600SC
* PowerEdge 1655C
* PowerEdge 1750
* PowerEdge 1800
* PowerEdge 1850
* PowerEdge 2200
* PowerEdge 2300
* PowerEdge 2400
* PowerEdge 2450
* PowerEdge 2550
* PowerEdge 2600
* PowerEdge 2650
* PowerEdge 2800
* PowerEdge 2850
* PowerEdge 4300
* PowerEdge 4400
* PowerEdge 6300
* PowerEdge 6500
* PowerEdge 6600
* PowerEdge 6650

Popis podržanog hardvera:

* SCSI kontroleri

  aacraid: Adaptec OEM based RAID controllers,

Dell Computer Corporation PERC 2 Quad Channel,
Dell Computer Corporation PERC 2/Si,
Dell Computer Corporation PERC 3/Si,
Dell Computer Corporation PERC 3/Di

  megaraid2: AMI MegaRAID SCSI Controllers,

Dell Computer Corporation PERC2/SC,
Dell Computer Corporation PERC2/DC,
Dell Computer Corporation PERC3/SC,
Dell Computer Corporation PERC3/DCL,
Dell Computer Corporation PERC3/DC,
Dell Computer Corporation PERC3/DCP,
Dell Computer Corporation PERC3/QC,
Dell Computer Corporation PERC4E/Si,
Dell Computer Corporation PERC4E/Di,
Dell Computer Corporation PERC4E/DC,
Dell Computer Corporation PERC4E/SC

* mrežne kartice

  eepro100: EtherExpress Pro/100
  e1000: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet
  tg3: Broadcom Tigon3

Umetanjem tog instalacijskog medija pokreće se kernel koji će naći diskovlje, nakon čega kreće standardna instalacijska procedura, koju ovdje nećemo opisivati. Važno je izabrati pravi modul za mrežnu karticu, kako bi mreža proradila poslije novog pokretanja.

Poslije instalacije medij treba sačuvati, jer on može poslužiti kao rescue CD.

Više informacija o linuxu na Dellovim poslužiteljima:
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/domsch/

I to bi bilo to!