From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 10:18:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA18658 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:18:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line6.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.87]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA18651 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:18:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA00662; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:17:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:17:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: soward@service1.uky.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5R on IBM 704 server? In-Reply-To: <199608201508.LAA02558@neworder.cc.uky.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, John Soward wrote: > This is probably an odd question, but has anyone every tried FreeBSD on an IBM > 704 Pentium-Pro server? just from looking at the specs I'd think it would > work, 4 way P-Pro, Adaptech PCI SCSI, etc...I have an opportunity to obtain a > very well loaded one of these for very little $$$ for use as a web server so... If it works like other PC hardware, it should work. Currently, FreeBSD won't be able to take advantage of your other 3 PPros, but you may want to check into the SMP development mailing list freebsd-smp and track that. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major