Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:22:36 -0500 From: Ken Stevenson <ken@transpack.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com>, Jennifer Gold <jenniferg@cticomtel.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD using Dell systems Message-ID: <200601261522.36451.ken@transpack.com> In-Reply-To: <54db43990601261138v4a80f6d5nd033c78c63f35345@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060126175506.37FFF380D1@smtp05.safesecureweb.com> <54db43990601261138v4a80f6d5nd033c78c63f35345@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday 26 January 2006 02:38 pm, Bob Johnson wrote: > > I have neither of those, but I've been running FreeBSD 5.4 on a pair > of PowerEdge 1800 systems. It can't access all 4 GB of installed RAM > (it sees 3327 MB). I looked up the reason for that once, but now I > forget what it is (PCI bus mapping, maybe, or PAE, or both?). It is > not specific to Dell, though, and may be solved in 6.0 (speculation). > > I tried to set aside a small partition for Windows XP in case I needed > to run some Windows-only management or repair software. It didn't > work. The Windows XP install program bluescreens on these systems. I > believe Dell only supports Windows 2003 Server on them. > Windows 2000 Professional runs fine on PowerEdge 2650's. I'm not sure about XP.
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