From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 21 11:58:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.biographix.com (mail.biographix.com [207.236.111.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3462437B739 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:58:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eperrin@bigorbit.com) Received: from bottleneck2000 ([192.168.1.12]) by mail.biographix.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2LI1eQ28409; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:01:45 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <013201c0b232$08dd6590$0c01a8c0@bottleneck2000> From: "Elliott Perrin" To: , "Martin McCormick" References: <3AB65848.29E9C6B@glue.umd.edu> Subject: Re: Does freebsd work well on Dell Platforms? Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:09:09 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am running FreeBSD 4.3 on the following 4 DELL PowerEdge 300's - PIII 800Mhz 2 DELL PowerEdge 1300's - PII 400Mhz 1 DELL PowerEdge 1400 - Dual PIII 866 I had problems running any 4.x on the 2 DELL Dimension 100's I had lying around, so I put 3.5 on them instead. The 300's are IDE drives, the 1400 and 1300 have built in SCSI, and work fine. No problems with the built in Ethernet on the 1400's either. Cheers ________________________________________ Elliott Perrin Systems Administrator Big Orbit - Specializing in new media for youth web: http://www.bigorbit.com email: eperrin@bigorbit.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brandon Fosdick" To: "Martin McCormick" Cc: Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 2:04 PM Subject: Re: Does freebsd work well on Dell Platforms? > Martin McCormick wrote: > > > > We plan to replace 3 Suns with high-end freebsd systems > > and the University has a contract with Dell. > > > > Since wee can probably get the best deal on these > > systems and since they seem to be generally very good, I am > > asking as to whether there are any problems with running freebsd > > on new high-end Dells? > > > > I know I have had fair to very good luck getting Linux to > > work on Dell 266-MHZ dimensions so I know some platforms are > > fussier than others. One system with a SCSI bus is basically > > okay but with no sound yet. Another similar system with no SCSI > > bus is fine but seems to take a long time to boot. At least its > > sound works. > > > > I realize that freebsd is not Linux, but I imagine it > > likes some systems better than others. > > > > What are the thoughts of the masses? > > I have FreeBSD 4.2 running on two Dimension 4100's and a C800 laptop. No > problems. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message