hmmm... Is this right???

[karmic]

I have a new server to play with for a week, bout a $4000 box. Dual 3 gig xeons, 1 sata mirror, 1 sata raid5 with a few bells and whistles... The client wants windows 2003 server...

K, I wanna play with it so I loaded RedHat Fedora Core 3. It went in beautifully, found all the hardware (video, network etc), found both raids and partitioned, and reboots fine... No errors...

This server seems to be ready to configure right after loading... Am I right in saying this? Is there anything that I should look for? or is linux that good with hardware???

I've put in a few servers in the past, with redhat 9 and I always have to install drivers for proper operation... Not this time...

What's your opinion?

And before you berate me for Redhat, I will be trying Debian tomorrow

Thanks.



~ K.I.S.S - Don't make it any more complex than it has to be ~

 

[thedaver]

IMHO, Fedora Core 3 is probably going to be one of the best in having newest drivers and ready-to-go support for SATA, etc.

If stuff is working, enjoy. What you probably don't have is a suite of tools to monitor the RAID chains, but you don't care for 1 wk of use, right?

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[karmic]

It really shocked me... I've never seen a windows server go this smooth.

~ K.I.S.S - Don't make it any more complex than it has to be ~

 

[KenCunningham]

Test it 'till it breaks! Then report it. Good luck.