> Can anyone share their experience with installing RHEL / Centos > (latest production release) on the Dell 2950 (or 2900) with the > quad-core e5310 processor? Does anyone know what chipset Dell is > using on this box? > > I've got one on the way, and I'm hoping to use centos as the 'host' OS > for several virtual machines (some of them Windows pigs), running > vmware server. > I'm not 100% sure, but that looks a lot like the 2 2900's I just fired up. For various reasons, I don't have access to dmesg on either of them at the moment, but I will say that CentOS 4.4 x86_64 runs well on them, and my dual Xeon boxes show in top as having 8 cpu's (0-7). I'm only running 6GB RAM on one of them, and 2GB on the other, but the PERC 5/i in RAID 1 or the beefier PERC controller in full RAID 10 with 8 300GB SAS drives works like a champ with CentOS. Nothing more complicated to do than set partitions, passwords, and distribution options during installation, and you don't even have to do all that.. Peter -- Peter Serwe <peter at infostreet dot com> http://www.infostreet.com "The only true sports are bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing." -Earnest Hemingway "Because everything else requires only one ball." -Unknown "Do you wanna go fast or suck?" -Mike Kojima "There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love." -Sir Stirling Moss