From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 14:28:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eamail1-out.unisys.com (eamail1-out.unisys.com [192.61.61.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7597B37B41B for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:28:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from ih85.ea.unisys.com (ih85.ea.unisys.com [192.61.103.85]) by eamail1-out.unisys.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA20009; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 22:27:45 GMT Received: from pythagorus.frf.unisys.com ([192.60.54.253]) by ih85.ea.unisys.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA06009; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 22:28:37 GMT Received: from unisys.com (localhost.frf.unisys.com [127.0.0.1]) by pythagorus.frf.unisys.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C079B0B; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:26:04 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C9BAF7C.2070605@unisys.com> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:26:04 -0500 From: "doug.fee@unisys.com" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Bleichert Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 1650 References: 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 Thousand comedians out of work and you're trying to be funny...why not just answer the question.... Duh...I know that I can choose other vendors, however my corporation is a partner with Dell so I can get them cheaper than buying from someone else or building my own...as if I had the time anyway... John Bleichert wrote: >On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, doug.fee@unisys.com wrote: > >>Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:01:24 -0500 >>From: "doug.fee@unisys.com" >>To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >>Subject: Dell PowerEdge 1650 >> >>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 >> > >Why not just ask Dell to provide them with FreeBSD on them? > >heheBWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA I kill me sometimes .... > >...sniff, hhehehe, seriously - can you buy them w/o an opsys on them? If > >so, why not choose a different vendor wich will sell you servers with >BSD >on them or save some money and build your own? > >Just curious. > >|-John Bleichert----syborg@stny.rr.com----------------| >|-------------------http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg--| > > >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