From: Tim Boyer 

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:11:43 -0500, "Geo"  wrote:

>"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote
in message
>news:457f8850$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> I bought a dell server (very low-end) last spring, without os, and
>installed
>> W2k3 server on it from a cd supplied to me by microsoft, and did not have
>to
>> even open the dell supplied cd's or download anything from dell - seems to
>> be very much standard hw in that one at least. It's nicely built, the side
>> pops open with one hand and everything inside is very easily accessible if
>> need be, and it's very very quiet, much quieter than the tinnitus in my
>ears
>> ;-)
>
>I did the same thing, and when I would click on restart it would hang on
>shutdown. Called dell support and they told me to use the dell specific
>driver for the built in intel pro100 NIC, did that and the hangs went away.
>If I turn on the raid feature, that also requires the dell specific driver
>
>Geo.
>

Hmmm.  Red Hat runs on them (600, 700, 1750, 2850) with stock Linux drivers.

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tim boyer
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