Linux drivers for Dell PowerEdge Server

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I am looking at purchasing a Dell PowerEdge R720 with no OS on it. Then, I will likely put on Fedora Core or CentOS. My question is this, will the drivers on Dell's support site under the OS heading of "Linux" work on any distro? Or, can I use the RedHat Enterprise drivers with either of the above flavors.

I'm coming up to speed on Linux but haven't had to do much hardware/driver work, so this is a gray area for me.

I'm seeing some other threads here that indicate they may, or may not. Thought I'd see what the current consensus was.

Thanks!

Best Answer

In order to install the Linux value-add drivers onto a Dell system, you need to take advantage of the Dell OMSA repository.

See: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/

Dell have made it quite easy for CentOS/RHEL-style systems. I would not plan on Fedora working... but that's not a good server platform choice for other reasons...

wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/bootstrap.cgi | bash

Folllowed by:

yum install srvadmin-all
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