From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 14:28:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from enigma.trueimpact.net (enigma.trueimpact.net [209.82.45.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B9537B404 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:28:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from groupofnine.org (unknown [209.82.45.200]) by enigma.trueimpact.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7681E66B11; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:28:31 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C9BB00F.4030207@groupofnine.org> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:28:31 -0500 From: Rick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020318 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "doug.fee@unisys.com" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 1650 References: <3C9BA9B4.5040508@unisys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG doug.fee@unisys.com wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anyone know or tried to run FreeBSD on a Dell PowerEdge 1650? I'm > pretty sure it would work, but I'm not sure about the dual embedded > gigabit ethernet cards that come with it. I tried to find out exactly > what they are, but to no avail. I'm thinking that maybe it is the Intel > PRO/1000 XTs. But it is confusing since Dell offers them as add-on > cards also. > > Any light on this issue would be greatly appreciated since I'm > considering buying 7 of them... > > Thanks, > Doug Fee > Network Design Engineer > Unisys Corporation > doug.fee@unisys.com > 502-226-2143 > Hi Doug, Most vendors, especially when dealing with a rather large purchase, would gladly eat their own sh*t if they though it would make the deal. Tell them you want to test one out with FreeBSD before you buy the rest. You may have to sign something that holds you to buying the rest if it does work, but any BS reason filled with technical jargon will get you out of it :-) If they give you a hard time, just say that you know that brand XXX machines run FreeBSD with no problems. I usually get a test box before we buy any new machines, and most vendors are fine with it. Cheers -Rick ps - I did the same thing with a Dell laptop, and ended up buying five vaio's. Thank goodness for that test one :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message