[ale] GParted & unallocated space

[Lightner, Jeff]

Just as a follow up - We've now installed RHEL5 on a couple of HP Compaq
6000 Pro SFF PCs without any issues.   No special flags or drivers
needed - just boot the DVD and go through standard installation.
Apparently not all HPs have issues loading Linux or maybe only Ubuntu
has issues loading.  I noticed the driver it picked was ata_piix.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Lightner, Jeff
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 12:11 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] GParted & unallocated space

We use the Dell PowerEdge servers (various models) and RHEL install
quite nicely on those as does CentOS.  I've used everything from RHEL2.1
to RHEL5.5 (and CentOS 5.5) on them.  I've also installed Fedora on a
few.   Also have seen it installed on an Optiplex desktop.

The only big trouble I ever had was trying to install Fedora 7 on an old
2450 once - turned out the issue was it had a newer MegaRAID driver for
the PERC 2.0 (RAID) controller that wasn't compatible.   Later I found
that the older driver was there as well but had to be selected manually
during the install.   Other than that I have seen a couple of older
Dells e.g the 1300 that required me to set ide=nodma or something like
that so it would properly use the CD drive during the install.  

Dell had announced they were supporting Ubuntu on their systems some
time ago.  (That may have been laptops.)

I actually have an HP Desktop waiting to be loaded with RHEL as a
personal workstation.   It will interesting to see if there are issues
loading it.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Paul
Cartwright
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 11:46 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] GParted & unallocated space

On Sat October 2 2010, Jim Philips wrote:
> So, I backed up the recovery partition to DVD's and then deleted it
from my
> hard drive. I now have Ubuntu installed. Way more trouble than it
should
> have been. My co-worker is a long-time IBM employee. He says that HP
is
> very much in bed with Microsoft and deliberately builds its PC's to
make
> Linux installation difficult. I believe him.

Dell isn't any better, even though they do seel Linux boxes, the regular
boxes 
have that partition for restoring WIN OS.. I think originally mine had 2

partitions, one restore, one diagnostic.

-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Registered Ubuntu User #12459
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