I recently got a 1U Dell PowerEdge 1750 with dual xeon, 3 SCSI Drives in RAID5, dual gigabit onboard ethernet, video out, cdrom, floppy, dual power supply. It took a little doing, but I got debian installed on it. The drivers for the raid controller and network cards were the problem since I was trying to do a net install. :) But I got it going and could help someone else interested in getting Debian to run on a 1750. No M$ charges for this machine. There is a console port and an option in the bios to redirect to console port, but I have not played with this at all yet so I dont know what it does exactly. Off Topic Xeon testing on this machine Kernel Compile times j1: 20 minutes j2: 12 minutes j4: 8 minutes So the hyperthreading seems to help, not as much as a real 3rd and 4th processor, but it does help. Josh Trutwin wrote: >Hi list, > >A friend of mine runs an ISP on a Raq4 Cobalt box colocated somewhere in Virginia. He doesn't have a lot of sys admin expertise, so the Raq4 Admin interface is nice for his 75 or so virtual domains that he hosts. This server has software that is horribly outdated (sendmail/bind/etc) and the Cobalt Linux OS seems to be dieing out so we're looking for a new solution. > >The ideal server: > >A 1U rack mounted server with 500 MB to 1GB memory, 80 or more GB disk, Network, CDROM, Video out (no serial cable installs please!) and a license that allows me to install/configure any version of linux that I want to on it. (most likely SuSE, Debian, or Slack) The most important part is this last part. The server will be co-located in Virginia, but beforehand we will wipe the drive and install an OS and the software required. > >I want full control over the software (apache/mysql/php/qmail/etc) and I have my own "control panel" so he can easily adminster new domains. > >Any suggestions on good hardware that will do the trick? > >Thanks, > >Josh > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list