Ian Forde <> scribbled on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:10 AM: >> Thx. A former unix-admin at the dept thinks it might be a little on the old >> side hardware-wise, this particular server is about four years old. I'm >> split... >> >> This particular Poweredge modell is certified for RHEL 2 and 3. If I'd try >> to install RHEL5 on it, would bad things happen, or is it just a support >> issue? Seeing how CentOS 5.2 is equivalent to RHEL5, I don't see *what* >> could happen though... Kernel panics?? > > Still don't forsee any problems... I was running RHL 7.2 and 9 on > PowerEdge 2850 boxes 6 years ago without problems, though I didn't have > OMSA on them (not even sure if it was available for RHL at that time). > There shouldn't be a problem with CentOS 5.2 though. You've got a PERC > 5/i, and I know that's supported in OMSA under RHEL 5.2. So I'd say > just go for it... and if you want more confirmation that it's certified > and supported for RHEL 5.2, you can check the http://support.dell.com > page, specify a PowerEdge 2850, and choose RHEL5. The fact that it's > there indicates that it's working for Dell, let people outside of > Dell... RH had an entry at > https://hardware.redhat.com/show.cgi?id=232290 but the link is busted. > But it still shows that it's certified... Fair enough, thx. Seems "rock-solid" is the word. 8-) Thanks again. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5118 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080917/19109549/attachment-0005.bin>