From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 15:43:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00903 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 15:43:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00849 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 15:42:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA28398; Fri, 8 May 1998 15:42:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 15:42:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Patrick McManus cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Compaq Proliant 2000? In-Reply-To: <01bd7a83$9a3e23b0$21c7c7c7@gta105> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 8 May 1998, Patrick McManus wrote: > Is FreeBSD supported on a Compaq Proliant 2000? I have had no luck > attempting to install various versions of Linux on this beast, they > don't support the on-board NCR SCSI controller. Also, if FreeBSD does > support the Proliant 2000, how easy is it to configure to support SMP? > My Proliant has two 486DX-50 processors, with slots for two more. Dual 486s, eh? I don't think FreeBSD can do that. It has SMP for Pentium class and above CPUs only. The SCSI controller may be supported -- try booting a boot floppy and see what it finds. This is going to be hard. I assume this doesn't have PCI slots. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message