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On May 11, 2009, at 4:26 PM, John Brooks wrote:

> I seem to have inherited a pair of Compaq Proliant 1600
> servers and am considering loading freebsd onto them.
>
> Has anyone worked with Proliants before and specifically
> with installing freebsd on them? Is it worth the bother?
>
> --
> John Brooks
> john@day-light.com
>

I'd say they aren't worth the power to turn on.  And probably the only  
versions of FreeBSD that would work on them well aren't supported  
these days anyways.

You are talking about hardware that is like single or dual P3 - 500mhz  
or thereabouts right?

Thanks,

Josh Paetzel