Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:47:08 -0400 From: Michael Smith <aunchaki@gmail.com> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PWS500a (Mitia) first install Message-ID: <29740e71050725104745f05dd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050721213241.28305.qmail@igel.cyberlink.ch> References: <20050721213241.28305.qmail@igel.cyberlink.ch>
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> I bought a used PWS500a with two 2 GB disks attached to an Adaptec2940(UW= ) > SCSI controller and a Toshiba ATAPI CD-ROM drive attached to a second SCS= I > bus... >=20 > I would be happy if someone could give me some advice what I should buy a= nd > how I should proceed to get the box running freebsd 4.11. I thought of > buying an IDE disk and removing the 2 small SCSI disks which have Windows= /NT > 4 installed on them. I already opened the box and detected that there isn= 't > much space left so I doubt whether I find a place where I can put the IDE > drive. Ulrich Sever or eight years ago I got a similar PWS433a -- 2 2GB SCSI drives on a 2940UW and a Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM drive. I replaced the Adaptec card with a Qlogic-based card from Tekram. It was cheap and works perfectly. For FreeBSD installs, I've always booted from the CD-ROM drive and installed to the SCSI drive (once I got the new SCSI card). It's been running FreeBSD ever since. It's running 4.11 perfectly right now. I've used it as a workstation, and now it's a server. You may encounter problems getting XFree86 or Xorg running with modern video cards. I've got an old Matrox Millenium II and it worked fine (though I haven't run X on it in years). It's a fantastic machine -- built like a tank. Good luck! --=20 Michael A. Smith <msmith@code-fu.com> "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." --Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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