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On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 10:33 +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote:
> Hi,
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> I am bit new to freebsd. I would like to install FreeBSD with below=20
> specifications. How do I go about it.
>=20
> My Hardware -- a dell server with below configuration.
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>  CPU: Dual Xeon 3.0GHz/2MB Cache
> RAM: 2GB (with room to grow to 12GB)
> Drive: 3 x 73GB SCSI with RAID 5 config
> Power: Dual power supply
> Rack: 2U and the server can take 6 drives.
>=20
>=20
> So can please let me know on how to go about installing freebsd 5.3 on th=
e=20
> above configuration with RAID 5 hardware.
>=20
> Thank you.
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You do not want FreeBSD 5.3 , you want FreeBSD 5.4 . Make sure your
RAID-controller is supported and read ..

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware.html
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/installation-i386.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html

Andreas

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