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Date:      Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:24:07 +0100
From:      Albert Shih <Albert.Shih@obspm.fr>
To:        Matt Szubrycht <matts@bmihosting.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 7.x on Dell R900?
Message-ID:  <20091104152407.GG2395@obspm.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CB2470CA-0A6B-48A0-B035-930ED98AF235@bmihosting.com>
References:  <CB2470CA-0A6B-48A0-B035-930ED98AF235@bmihosting.com>

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 Le 03/11/2009 à 16:39:25-0800, Matt Szubrycht a écrit
> Hello List,
> 
> I cannot find any fresh information on compatibility of Dell PowerEdge  
> R900 and FreeBSD after googling for several hours, so I decided to ask  
> here.  If this is not the right place, please redirect me to.
> 
> All of our servers run FreeBSD with one exception - a CentOS machine,  
> which adds to the overall maintenance workload and keeping up to date.  
> Back in the day, after getting the R900 (without prior OS  
> compatibility research), the word was that FreeBSD will not run on  
> this hardware and we ended up installing CentOS.  That was well over a  
> year ago and I am wondering if anyone could share some insight into  
> the current compatibility status, installation/operation pitfalls and  
> any other tips that would allow me to get away from Linux on this R900  
> box and create a homogeneous server-space environment with FreeBSD 7.x.

Can you specify what don't work ? What's the problem.

Regards.

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