On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 15:47 -0500, Matt Morgan wrote: > I'm a fairly experienced RH and Fedora user and admin looking to try > CentOS for the first time. I have lots of experience with Dell servers > and I'd like to stick with them. > > Although I'm sure it's not always strictly enforced, Dell claims that > it won't provide warranty hardware support on servers installed with > an un-Dell-supported OS (basically, anything other Windows, RH, and > Suse). Are other CentOS admins successful in getting Dell to support > their hardware? How does it work--do you just tell them it's RH? > > Also, any recommendations for which Dell PERC or Dell SATA RAID > adapters can I expect to work nicely with CentOS? > > If, on the other hand, Dell gives you trouble for CentOS installs, and > you have recommendations for other server vendors, let me know. In > particular, one that can provide on-site warranty support in Toronto, > Canada, would be great. I'm only interested in i386 architecture, by > the way. ---- Dell is going to warranty the hardware - it doesn't have anything to do with which OS you are using. You can't expect them to support an OS that they don't support but I would bet that if the software issue is something that wouldn't change from RHEL/CentOS - they wouldn't miss a beat. BTW - most of the PowerEdge stuff now can run the 86-64 as well as the i386 Craig