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Dell KACE Debuts SMB System Management Appliance

cj2003 — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:44:38 +0000

In terms of what runs under the hood, the M300 takes a different direction from Dell KACE’s larger K1000 appliance. The K1000 uses an open source FreeBSD operating system as its base. In contrast, the new M300 uses a Debian Linux operating system. More here

Setting up Linux (Debian Squeeze) on a Dell Latitude E6510

cj2003 — Sun, 23 May 2010 17:13:08 +0000

After more than 4 weeks, my new notebook finally arrived last monday. Monday this week I tried installing Debian Squeeze (still is testing) on my new Latitude and after 2 hours formatting the drive with dmcrypt, failed with a not starting X, not finding a screen. More here

Installing Debian Squeeze (with dist-upgrade from Lenny) on Dell XPS 630i

cj2003 — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:27:24 +0000

I wanted to do a fresh install using an install CD for Squeeze, but unfortunately I had a couple problems that I couldn’t solve, so I decided to get a netinst (or businesscard) installer for Lenny and do dist-upgrade as soon as the basic system is working. More here

Dell MD3000 Multipath on Debian

cj2003 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:42:56 +0000

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. More here

When the hardware was initially deployed to us, they were configured in a high availability (HA) setup, with each controller on the MD3000 connected to a controller on the R710. This way, if a controller fails, in theory the storage is still accessible. The problem with this type of setup is that in order to make it work flawlessly, you need to use the Dell multi-path proxy and mpt drivers, not the ones provided by the Linux kernel. Dell’s provided stuff doesn’t work on Debian.

Debian Squeeze and an old Dell PE1650

cj2003 — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:28:59 +0000

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! More here

Its kind of a long story but my original PE1650 was running BIOS A10 when it died due to memory slot failure. So I borrowed a friend’s unused PE1650 until I could get a “new” one on-site.

Booting ‘Debian Lenny’ into widescreen framebuffer

cj2003 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:41:46 +0000

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. Morehere

Debian Lenny on an old Dell Inspiron 1505E

cj2003 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:15:55 +0000

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. More here

A couple of months back I was having some trouble with Ubuntu Hardy on my old Dell Inspiron 1505E laptop in terms of performance.

Debian Lenny on Dell Optiflex 760

cj2003 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:40:06 +0000

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. More here