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Subject: Re: Which freebsd for newer server?
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At 06:16 PM 9/27/2005, Jason Lieurance wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have a dell poweredge 1425sc 1U server that's a few months old. It 
>has dual zeons
>w/HT. I tried at the time to install freebsd 5.3 and 5.4 on it but 
>it would have a
>fatal error with both randomly while running. I posted here and of 
>the very few
>responses to fix my problem, someone said turn off HT which did not solve the
>problem. It's not any of the hardware because I loaded debian and it 
>ran fine but I
>want freebsd on it. I would think the lastest version 5.4 would work 
>with new new
>hardware but I'm thinking not and its really disappointing. Any 
>suggestions for SMP
>with new new hardware, 4.11 perhaps?

If you have new hardware and 5.x is giving you trouble, you're likely 
to have more trouble if you go back to 4.x.

6.0 is in beta right now.  You might want to try that and see how 
well it works on your hardware.

-Glenn


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>Jason
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