Raphael

Dell PowerEdge R430 Dell Service Tag 484HDH2 Inventory Tag 10026 Rack Position 25

Configured BIOS Settings:

• set time to UTC
• changed IDRAC network interface to #4
• disabled network boot
• set boot mode to UEFI from BIOS

Configured IDRAC Settings:

• set DNS IDRAC name to idrac-raphael
• enabled "use DHCP to obtain DNS server addresses"
• changed password from default to r...

Attempted and failed to backup System Profile to a network share. It would not connect to either a NFS share on citybadger's Linux machine minor7th or a CIFS share on HM's Windows machine HM-PUBLIC-PC.

Installed Linux from an ISO of offical Debian Trixie DVD media attached via IDRAC's virtual media feature.

System partition volumes use the entirety of sda. sdb is left unused. TODO: Is sda if the left or right one. Someone should check.

installed sudo (TODO: configure sudo) installed debconf-utils exported debconf settings from the installer to /home/user to help creation of preseed file for the other servers or reinstall. See those files for details of the OS install.

Had trouble booting. Power Supply was not providing enough power. In BIOS, I changed the System Profile to "Dense Configuration".