From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 13 9:48: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from designdata.com (ns.designdata.com [209.0.219.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99077155DA for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:47:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from agueco@designdata.com) Received: from webaccess.designdata.com by designdata.com (5.4R3.10/200.8.1.3) id AA05521; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:45:40 -0500 Received: from DDS_DOMAIN-Message_Server by ddsmail.designdata.com with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:50:33 -0500 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:50:05 -0500 From: "Armando Gueco" To: Subject: Re: hardware compatible/supported? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Realizing that I probably didn't supply enough hardware info: ProLiant 6500, 1 Pentium Pro 200 CPU, 1 meg cache No array controller, standard on-board UW-SCSI controller Standard Compaq NetFlex NIC Compaq 9.1 UW-SCSI HDs IDE CDROM In your opinion, would installing RedHat (somewhat broader list of = compatible/supported hardware, no offense) on what's going to be a = web/mail server save me a significant amount of time? >>> 01/13/00 12:09 PM >>> I've had the 3.x series running on one of these boxes (with smp enabled). = =20 Problems/issues enocounterd... The smartraid controller is not supported by the boot disks, the "ida" driver does support it. SmartStart needs to be used to make sure that a full APIC table is set = up.2 Also set it up for SCO Unix V 8or SYSV. The pci bridge chips should be supported. =20 On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Armando Gueco wrote: > Please tell me that FreeBSD installs (with no major problems) to a = Compaq ProLiant 6500. Please mean it. :) >=20 > Appreciate it much. >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message