From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 11 20:23:46 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2106016A41F for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:23:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maudeuser@yahoo.com) Received: from web31611.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31611.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.157]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A64CD43D46 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:23:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maudeuser@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 30034 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Aug 2005 20:23:45 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=w+KZG9cqo9kEZQ03GR9MUkEGhmsgeYKXKwmNk+/34osI8yqQLbvxK9NaCO8bUEWdx0BPC798bZJDNK3YTv/Ciubvc9fRr5zy5+e0rUZqW11fzXyvPJ5+zhSdpybAvLMqF8vkItqVY+RIfcvaniS/zNuwo9BR9mEmMeBEgNCZdHQ= ; Message-ID: <20050811202345.30032.qmail@web31611.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.184.107.52] by web31611.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:23:45 PDT Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:23:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Maude User To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, talk@lists.nycbug.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Newbie needs help setting up rackmount server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:23:46 -0000 Hello -- I recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 on my laptop and now I want to install it onto a rackmount server (hardware specs below). I hate to ask a silly question but here goes: Do I need to get a USB CD-ROM drive (and keyboard and monitor) for the server in order to install FreeBSD... or is there some way I can install onto the rackmount server from the laptop? (There's no CD-ROM on the rackmount server, but the laptop has a CD-RW/DVD+-RW.) The rackmount server consists of the following: > Motherboard: Tyan GS12 single-processor 1U rackmount barebones server with: --> ICH-5R & Intel 875P chipsets (I understand FreeBSD 5.x is ok with these) --> Supports Intel P4 processor 800/533 MHz FSB --> Supports up to 2 IDE HDD devices (Serial ATA and Ultra ATA/100 connectors) --> Supports RAID 0, 1 --> Integrated LAN controller (Intel 82547GI CSA & 82541GI PCI 10/100/1000 GbE LAN controllers) with two RJ-45 LAN connectors --> One 32-bit/33 MHz PCI v2.3 slot --> Four USB 2.0 ports --> Phoenix BIOS on 4Mb Flash ROM; UCR and PXE (LAN remote boot); SM BIOS 2.3.1 (backward compatible w/ DMI 2.0) ---> Programmable 2-line LCD display with drivers for FreeBSD > Processor: Intel "Northwood" 2.8GHz 533MHz FSB Socket 478 Pentium 4 (no hyperthreading) > Memory: 2 x Micron 1024MB DDR400 ECC Registered PC3200 400MHz 184pin RAM > Hard drives: 2 x Western Digital 250GB Serial ATA hard drives Here's some further info about this Tyan motherboard: http://www.tyan.com/products/html/gs12b5103_spec.html ftp://ftp.tyan.com/manuals/m_gs12b5103_100.pdf http://www.dansdata.com/ttransport.htm Thanks for any help. -- Steve Brooklyn, NYC __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com