[rescue] Thumpers?

[Dave McGuire]

  Hey folks.  I'm talking to a friend of mine who isn't on this list;
he's trying to get Linux running on a Thumper.  He's running into
serious problems getting it booted.  I've never actually worked with one
and I'm not close enough to just go over and help him figure it
out...Isn't the Thumper a relatively standard (though beefy in the
storage department) x86 PC?  Should it be able to run a modern Linux
distribution like Ubuntu Server or similar?

            Thanks,
            -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA