Re: workstation buying advice

From	ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: workstation buying advice
Date	2020-07-15 16:40 +0200
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On Wednesday, July 15, 2020 4:10 AM, lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> wrote:

> That would be great to get your guys' advice as I worried I may not be
> able to install Debian on it due to my past experience that my SSD was
> invisible during installation.

I'm sitting at a SuperMicro box running Buster. I just stick a Debian netInstall CD into it and go -- been doing that since Jessie. In the advanced/expert (can't remember just what it's called) ncurses semiGUI install.

This one is a few years old, with an 8 core Xeon, a 2.4G clock, and about 12G of RAM. It's been solid as a rock. I created one install prob when I put an nvme in it at Buster. Nvme came along after this machine was built, and the BIOS didn't know anything about it. So I told the installer to put the nvme at /, with a USB stick at /boot. Things are intelligent enough to work just fine with that mild kludge.

SSD: Mine sees any disk with a SATA interface, and every SSD I've had any dealings with did SATA.

Lovely machine. Less than optimal tech support from SuperMicro, though (I wanted to upgrade the BIOS so it could deal with nvme, and never heard from them). And the dox keep talking about something called 'Windows.'

--
Glenn English

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workstation buying advice lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> - 2020-07-15 12:20 +0200
  Re: workstation buying advice "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-07-15 14:00 +0200
    Re: workstation buying advice lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> - 2020-07-15 14:40 +0200
    Re: workstation buying advice Klaus Singvogel <deb-user-ml@singvogel.net> - 2020-07-15 15:00 +0200
      Re: workstation buying advice Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-15 15:30 +0200
      Re: workstation buying advice "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-07-15 15:40 +0200
  Re: workstation buying advice Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-15 14:50 +0200
    Re: workstation buying advice lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> - 2020-07-15 15:00 +0200
      Re: workstation buying advice Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-15 15:30 +0200
    Re: workstation buying advice rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-07-15 15:30 +0200
  Re: workstation buying advice ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2020-07-15 16:40 +0200

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