Having found the Netserver LPr to be not so debian friendly, I'm looking
to buy a coupla used 600mhz 2u units that are more friendly. I'd like to
be able to load mepis up in case of emergency etc, though the unit's will
have debian sarge installed.
I had a little problem with my LPr too - but once you know how to get the
hardware recognised it works fine!
I'd like suggestions on which brand may be more friendly to debian? IBM,
dell? or what?
Most of my servers (I have 9 of them) are all Compaq Proliant's (apart from
the 1 LPr and a couple of Netra's) - from older 6500's (quad CPU) to newer
DL380's - all install fine with Sarge netinst (I have a private Debian
mirror that I netinstall from), and they have never let me down - 24/7 for
that past 2 years and counting..
Or should I just resign myself to keep "rolling my own" :)
That's fine if you can get the parts nice'n'cheap - I paid about £50.00 for
the DL380 (2 x 733PIII, 1GB Ram), and about the same for the Proliant
1850r's (2 x 550PII, 1GB Ram) - you'd be hard pushed to build something
comparable for that sort of money, especially comsidering the Proliants are
all "proper" server architecture..
Just my £0.02 - HTH.
Cheers,
Pete.
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