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Dell MD3000 Multipath on Debian

We are in the process of deploying some new infrastructure to store the 150+GB of new content (media only, not including text) uploaded to WordPress.com daily.

Debian Squeeze and an old Dell PE1650

I recently had to put Debian testing (Squeeze) on an old Dell PowerEdge 1650 server. Here’s a little tip to save you some time if your ever in the same situation: upgrade the BIOS first!

Booting ‘Debian Lenny’ into widescreen framebuffer

I have a Dell D630 Latitude(running Lenny) that i use at work. While trying to push the framebuffer size, i had to experiment a bit with numbers, because i couldn’t get ready to use values off google for widescreen framebuffers.

Debian Lenny on an old Dell Inspiron 1505E

With the laptop finally showing its age I decided to go with Debian, first Etch but soon enough Lenny was released so I upgraded to it and installing some additional software and such.

Debian Lenny on Dell Optiflex 760

So if you get that shiny new Dell desktop and ACPI spit bunch of message at the install time and the network driver does not get detected you can follow these steps to have it working.


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