On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:02:10 -0600 Tim Wilson <wilson at visi.com> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I've just purchased a Dell PowerEdge 1750 server to run RequestTracker on > here at work. We bought the RAID controller, but don't intend to use it > quite yet. > > I don't have much experience with RAID and I'm wondering if it's possible to > install Linux (probably Debian) on the system in such a way that plugging > another drive in later would "just work." We're probably going to just do > mirroring if or when we plug in another drive. I cannot answer your RAID question, but I can tell you that installing Debian on a 1750 is a little bit of a headache. The default install disks do not recognize the NIC or SCSI controller. But, if you follow the detailed instructions here: http://oregonstate.edu/~kveton/debian/ you should be good to go. Josh _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list