[CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U withdualOpteron 248 HE

[Rainer Duffner]

RobertH schrieb:
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> i was wondering if others had bought any of these boxes and played with them
> yet. they are pretty cheap and i have been looking for some cheap rackmount
> boxes that i can throw large ata ide drives in to do some things with
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Just for kicks, can you try:
 - installing FreeBSD 7.1 64bit
 - installing a FreeBSD8 snapshot from recently
 - Windows 2003 server
 - OpenSolaris
 - Ubuntu (server) ?

If none of these work, I'd toss it ;-)
There may be a reason why they were cheap...



Rainer