From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 9 20:41:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71CDD10657D4 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 20:41:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 287528FC20 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 20:41:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LgmHT-0001Ku-IC for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:40:59 +0000 Received: from pool-70-21-13-242.res.east.verizon.net ([70.21.13.242]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:40:59 +0000 Received: from nightrecon by pool-70-21-13-242.res.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:40:59 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Powell Followup-To: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:41:46 -0400 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <006001c9a0d3$9d61b660$d8252320$@com> <20090309163201.GA89070@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <20090309195702.GA90033@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <008c01c9a0f4$8b530cf0$a1f926d0$@com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-70-21-13-242.res.east.verizon.net User-Agent: KNode/0.99.01 Sender: news Subject: RE: Which install ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: nightrecon@verizon.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:41:03 -0000 Darryl Hoar wrote: [snip] >> >> After looking at the referenced wiki and my system, I believe I have a >> supermicro >> SuperServer 6012L-6. It has (2) Xeon 512K L2 "Prestonia" processors. >> They are >> Installed in a P4DLR+ motherboard which has 603 pin sockets. > From this, I believe I should install the i386 version of Freebsd. Do I > have to do anything to enable multi-processors in Freebsd ? Yes - the Prestonia is from before EMT64. Some while back FreeBSD went to having SMP enabled as default in the GENERIC kernel. I haven't looked at the 6.x series as I went to 7.0-Release when it arrived. I did take a quick look at the GENERIC conf file on a 7.1-Release box and it has SMP in there as default. On older hardware you might try both/either 6.x and/or 7.1 releases and try and see if one works better. I'd try 7.1 first as it will have a better long term upgrade path, and fall back to giving 6.x a go if 7.1 gives trouble. Most likely what you'll see is whether or not the disk controllers are properly supported. SCSI and/or IDE can give problems with boot ordering sometimes. If it doesn't hickup on the disk controller(s) everything else will most likely be fine. As old as it is there is a pretty fair chance it will be OK. -Mike