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On May 7, 2004, at 1:40 PM, Mark Ovens wrote:

> J. W. Ballantine wrote:
>> It a Dell, but given the configuration, i do not believe it came
>> pre-installed from the factory.
>
> I would have thought that a Dell would have had *an* OS pre-installed.
>

Not always.  I am running FBSD 4.9 on a couple Dell 2650's ordered just 
for the purpose of installing FreeBSD on them for some of  our server 
use...you can specify *no operating system* and they ship you the 
system and rails with nothing but the hard drives configured for RAID 
on the PERC controller.  No fuss, no muss :-)