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Subject: Re: DL 120 G5 Freebsd 5.4
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kama-4 wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Rainer Duffner wrote:
> 
>> b-boy schrieb:
>> > Hi all
>> >
>> > Has anyone attempted to run 5.4 on a dl120 g5 ? My client wants to
>> order
>> > this box but I'm not sure if 5.4 has the drivers to run on it.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Is there a business reason why he wants to run 5.4, of all things?
>>
>> 5.4 is EOL - I'm not sure it has support for the ICH that this board
>> uses.
>>
> 
> Im not sure, but I think you dont have support for the NIC. The DL380G5
> uses bce instead of bge. I think you need to go up to 6.3 to get bce in
> the system.
> 
> Try running FreeBSD 7.1 w COMPAT5 installed if its a binary that needs
> FreeBSD 5.4.
> 
> /Bjorn
> 
> 

Ok, I just had a chat with my dev guy and he said we could also look at
installing 6.2 but I think that will still not work... 


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