On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Kenneth Porter wrote: > I'm in an all-Dell shop and am contemplating buying one of these to use as > an "emergency gateway server" in case my primary fails. It'll let me take > the primary out of service to upgrade its OS. Has anyone installed CentOS > on one of these? Any gotchas? > > It looks like I can buy this model with these tweaks for about $480: > > AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 3600+ > FreeDOS included in the box, ready to install > 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs > Free Upgrade from 80GB to 160GB (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache > 16X DVD-ROM Drive > NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE Integrated Graphics GPU > Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > (Scanned by Sigmer MailScanner and believed to be clean) I have a Dell Dimension C521 on which I've installed Centos5. I had to use the noapic kernel switch at install time. Other than that all went smoothly. I have a couple of vmware server guests running on it as a test and the time on the guests is racing away (about 3 times normal time). The host is rock solid though. Kind Regards Nick. ------------------------------------ Nick Goddard. Sigmer Technologies Ltd. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos