From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 15 13: 1: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil (shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil [141.190.102.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADAED37B4FE for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 13:01:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil (8.10.1/8.10.1) id eAFL1Ow12736; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:01:24 -1000 From: Gary Dunn Reply-To: gdunn@mac.com Organization: Open Slate Project To: "Sloan, Geoff" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq ProLiant 3000 SMP and Ports Collection through HTTP firewa ll questions... Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:47:11 -1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <2D348570FE47D0118C3F00805FEA318106A44283@EXCHOU-CA0901> In-Reply-To: <2D348570FE47D0118C3F00805FEA318106A44283@EXCHOU-CA0901> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00111511012400.12711@shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Sloan, Geoff wrote: > In a world full of Red Hat here at Compaq, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.1 > on a ProLiant 3000 (dual 500MHz, Smart Array 3200 controller) in my office. > I've gotten the OS installed, but was curious as to how I'd go about > building an SMP kernel, or if it's even possible/advisable on this system. > It's been eons since I've built a kernel. :P All of the sources are > installed, so if there's a way to do it, I shouldn't have a problem. > > Second issue. I'm behind an HTTP proxy here at Compaq, and I would very > much like to use FTP to get the latest ports via the ports collection. How > would I go about setting up the ports collection to use the proxy correctly? > Any and all help is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Geoff Sloan > Systems Engineer > Insight Management QA > Industry Standard Server Division > COMPAQ Computer Corporation > Phone: (281) 518-7292 Wow! COMPAQ is in the building! This is great!! I have two Proliant servers running FreeBSD (and a Dell ... but that's Okay). Geoff, please get with the tech support side and offer at least a little visibility on the company web site. Linux gets lots of space, and I think FreeBSD should, too. For example, I stumbled a bit doing my last install because I was not sure what to select for my NIC, nd someone else was confused by the choice of operating systems in the SmartStart sequence. A good How-to on installing FreeBSD on COMPAQ servers would be teriffic. Another critical topic is what models will work, and what NICs are built-in. -- == Gary Dunn == Honolulu == Open Slate Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message