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They're they exact same machine: same drive, same chipset, etc. As for why I haven't been able to get the Etch installer, every time I've tried for the past week to download it, it trudges along at 4K/s - 30K/s and eventually ends up stopping completely after about 50MB or so. I guess everyone

Sad...

I installed debian on a PowerEdge 850 flawlessly in October of 2005 using a Testing NetInst CD. It's sad that the SATA support for this machine has since been removed, as I'm now attempting to install debian on another machine which is exactly the same (PowerEdge 850 bought at the same time as t