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> >Subject:
> >Re: [MSUNAG] Sun X2100 Server Issue(s)
> >From:
> >Matthew A Kolb <[log in to unmask]>
> >Date:
> >Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:38:50 -0400
> >To:
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> >Marc Conlin writes:
> >
> >>We've had a demo unit of this Sun AMD server for a week or more.
> >>We've been
> >>unable to get the academic versions of Red Hat Linux or Windows 2003
> >>Server,
> >>both 32 and 64 bit versions to install. In particular we've been
> >>unable to
> >>get either hardware of software raid to work.
> >>Is anyone actually using a Sun AMD server and if so with what OS and
> >>with or
> >>without raid?
> >
> >
> >Sorry I'm so far behind on this. We are using X4200s with Solaris 10.
> >Our disks are mirrored by the internal card (this is probably a major
> >difference between the 4200 and the 2100, I'm not sure).
> >As for getting alternative OSs to run, here's one indication of success:
> >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-amd64/2005-December/007046.ht
> >ml
> >Best of luck.
> >./matt
We have a X2100 running Gentoo AMD 64 2006.0 with software raid 1 and a
2.6 kernel no problems. I don't think that we tried windows on it, but
FreeBSD worked on it as well.
Matt
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