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[garethEds]

Good morning,

 

Can anyone recommend the best Linux to install onto a PowerEdge 380G8 server with RAID? I want to setup an internal web server for the pupils to use. I've tried MintLinux but it doesn't recognise the RAID drives (which have been configured to mirror in the HP software).

 

I've installed many linux flavours onto machines with a simple drive - your usual desktops and laptops, but never on a server. I was hoping it would be the same.

 

Cheers

 

Gareth

[Dos_Box]

Moving to the *nix forum.

[garethEds]

WHoops. Didn't check if there as a *nix forum. Cheers @Dos_Box

[MatthewL]

I use Debian for everything I do.

[dmj]

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=c03369047&docLocale=en_US&page=GUID-DA6F9D14-ED8B-4846-890D-F9F76FE73A51.html

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Use this: it's binary compatible with RHEL

https://rockylinux.org/

[dhicks]

I want to setup an internal web server for the pupils to use.

 

Are pupils going to be logging in to the server to administer / tinker with it? For headless (console / SSH-only access) machines I generally use Debian, for anything that needs a nice graphical user interface I find the Raspberry Pi version of Debian for x86 / AMD64 pretty reliable - it looks and works (mostly) the same as the Raspberry Pi version, and there's plenty of documentation around to show users how to do stuff.

[mavhc]

Step 1: find the device IDs of the device without drivers

 

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/385537/linux-list-devices-that-dont-have-drivers

[Davit2005]

What about installing ProxMox (or other cheap/free hypervisor) on the server then installing anything else on top as a VM? Might be more options :-) Edited February 1, 2024 by Davit2005

[tom_newton]

What about installing ProxMox (or other cheap/free hypervisor) on the server then installing anything else on top as a VM? Might be more options :-)

 

 

This. Insulates you from hardware compatibility, and you can burn the server down and start again more easily.

[mavhc]

Plus you get zfs, the best fs

[XiJ]

This. Insulates you from hardware compatibility, and you can burn the server down and start again more easily.

 

Also easy to spin up more for backup. (Although I haven’t done that yet!)

[garethEds]

Thanks everyone - going to run that. Am having trouble with Linux at the moment. Just tried installing one my Hyper-V and it failed. It's nothing really - btu just frustrating that I've not got the time to play about.

[Guest]

Fedora server usually works great with most things. Its pre-installed with cockpit so its reasonably easy to remotely manage.