From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 17:08:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE80B16A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:08:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 691C243D2F for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:08:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from timh@contentspace.demon.co.uk) Received: from contentspace.demon.co.uk ([80.177.161.24] helo=[192.168.0.162]) by anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1B5aPV-000HZg-0W for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 01:08:53 +0000 From: Tim Hawkins Organization: Yahoo Inc To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 01:08:37 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <200403221829.i2MITJH11698@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200403221829.i2MITJH11698@clunix.cl.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403230108.37679.timh@contentspace.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Dell Servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: timh@contentspace.demon.co.uk List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 01:08:55 -0000 On Monday 22 March 2004 18:29, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > To whom it may concern. > > We need to install FreeBSD 4.9 on Dell server , and we need to find out > > on which Dell server it supports. > > Currently we have Dell Power Edge 1600C server it's a small business > > level server and on that same small business server we need to install > > FreeBSD but we don't know on which SmallBusiness server supports FreeBSD > > 4.9 os. > > We have quite a variety of Dell machines and I haven't found one > that did not support FreeBSD. Probably 4.9 is the best place to start > too. > > If your present 1600 is free at the moment, just try installing FreeBSD > on it and see. Your main ifs are two. If the modem is a winmodem which > is useless get something else. There may be some confusion if it has > IDE disk and CD controllers. You have to get them arranged right - > primary, secondary, master, slave - for things to be recognized. If > you have SCSI disk, hurray because it will all work just hunky dory. > Note: Turn off Plug-n-Play at the BIOS level. > > If that machine is available to completely dedicate it to FreeBSD, > well, then go ahead and try it with no qualms. It won't wreck it > to experiment. Dells tend (though not always) to have pretty > mainstream stuff that is generally supported. > > If it has plenty of disk, and it already has some MS junk on it that > you need to keep, make it a dual boot machine. You will need a utility > to squeeze the MS slice down so you can put in a FreeBSD slice. I have > had good success with Partition Magic which is about $69 in places like > Best Buy and Circuit City. There are some freebie ones, but none that > I know of can handle NTFS type file systems from MS so I just went and > spent the money. You will need to make the floppies it tells you about > in the PM manual and just use those and don't bother installing it on > the machine from the CD. (unless you have to to make the flppies - I > can't remember that tidbit) > > Enough disk would be greater than 20GB or more depending on how much > you are already using. Give MS lots of room to expand 2 or 3 times > what you are already using and then at least 10GB for FreeBSD. > If you have more, that is better - after all, you want your DB > and records software to have lots of room. > > Read and try to understand the handbook first. It wouldn't hurt to also > have another plain language book on FreeBSD management on hand as well. > Something like The Complete FreeBSD (someone walked off with mine, Grrr) > or FreeBSD Unleashed. Onlamp has a couple of good tutorials on such > things as configuring XFree86 client and server and there are other good > sources on the net too. > > ////jerry > > > Kind Regards, George Simonishvili > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I would recomend getting hold of a Freebsd "LiveCD" there are various around, such as FreeBSIE, I use these to test laptops in shops before buying. Allows you to boot BSD without modifing the HardDisk -- Regards Tim Hawkins