Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:30:49 -0700 From: "Dan Bikle" <dan.bikle@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server; recommendations? Message-ID: <74252ed10607221330h6b434f4dkb8d79b0c60238357@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <74252ed10606181338s2fef875fqd367631c5aebb64@mail.gmail.com> References: <74252ed10606171050w6fdd78c8nd7fceedf4c5c2e6b@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a0606171247p44ed1adfh9db7b82051ab8a38@mail.gmail.com> <74252ed10606171439l13b6d24ek7e4689f7952eb895@mail.gmail.com> <74252ed10606181338s2fef875fqd367631c5aebb64@mail.gmail.com>
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Well, it turns out that ordering a computer from Walmart was a mistake. They sent me the wrong computer. I don't understand why. The item listed in my online order was clearly different than the item printed on the packing list attached to the shipping box. Perhaps they have a literacy problem in their warehouse. At least the return was easy; I just took the box to my local Walmart and they accepted it and then put the correct credit on my credit card. Then, I went to Frys. I showed the spec of the Walmart machine that I wanted. They easily beat Walmart with an 'open-box' special which is a customer returned computer still under warranty. I got an HP Pavilion a1340n for about $500. It has 1G RAM, 250G HD, 1 R-W DVD drive and 1 R-O DVD drive. CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&product=1818054&dlc=&docname=c00575715 It has an ATI grapics card but I'm not sure how to use a shell command to give me information about it. I looked at dmesg output and saw nothing about the grapics card. How might I get info about my graphics card? Thanks, -Dan On 6/18/06, Dan Bikle <dan.bikle@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well folks, > > I did a bit more looking around. > > I found this: > http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3762910 > > specs: > CPU: AMD Sempron 3000+ > > It is so cheap I'm tempted to buy it and take the risk that > I could install a recent version of FreeBSD on it. > > Since it comes with Linux installed on it, > I'm tempted to think that the interface cards for the Video > and the keyboard, and the mouse are a common variety. > > I have a question for any of you who have done a lot of FreeBSD installs > on a variety of hardware... > Would you gamble $368 that you could get FreeBSD installed on this thing? > > -Dan > > On 6/17/06, Dan Bikle <dan.bikle@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks! > > > > I worked with the links you sent me. > > For desktop systems I narrowed the list to these offerings: > > > > http://www.asaservers.com/config.asp?config_id=ASA%5FPC5 > > http://www.storeanywhere.com/pages/html/products/st.product_info.php?cPath=53&products_id=143 > > > > http://eracks.com/products/Desktops > > > > -Dan > > > > > > > > On 6/17/06, Nikolas Britton < nikolas.britton@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 6/17/06, Dan Bikle < dan.bikle@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server. > > > > > > > > Do you have any recommendations for some vendors? > > > > > > > > I could go buy some commodity hardware and do the install myself > > > > but I seem to have bad luck with hands-on type tasks. > > > > > > > > I'm not picky about CPU; Intel or AMD is fine. > > > > Anything over 1.5 GHZ should do it. > > > > > > > > RAM? > > > > I guess 1GB would be good enough. > > > > > > > > Disk? > > > > A couple of 80GB drives would work. > > > > > > > > I live in San Jose, CA; A local vendor would be great. > > > > > > > > > > Your in luck, these guys are in San Jose: > > > http://www.ironsystems.com/index.asp > > > > > > Here's the full list of venders: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/hardware.html > > > > > > > > > -- > > > BSD Podcasts @: > > > http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ > > > http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > > >
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