Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 20:21:45 +0000 From: John Howie <john@thehowies.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge r210 II Message-ID: <F29E6C6B-6853-4524-98A6-ADCCF8AB9607@thehowies.com> In-Reply-To: <20170127144303.GA2706@c720-r292778-amd64.oa.oclc.org> References: <20170127144303.GA2706@c720-r292778-amd64.oa.oclc.org>
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Hi Mathias, FreeBSD should run just fine. There are any number of web-sites that will sell disks for DELL servers for less than DELL does. Watch that power bill, and buy industrial ear protectors from the fan noise! Regards, John Sent from my iPhone > On 27 Jan 2017, at 14:43, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > > > Hello, > > The company I'm working for, decided to put some older rack mount > servers into dust bin and I'm saving a Dell PowerEdge r210 II with > 16 GByte RAM and 8 CPU of 3.3 GHz as my new poudiere oven. The server has > no disks (because they must be destroyed). I booted FreeBSD CURRENT amd64 > from an USB key and have below the dmsg(1) and ifconfig(8) output, > attached below. > > http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/PowerEdge_R210_Tech_Guide.pdf > > Any comments about this "project" and any ideas about the disks to buy? > Thx > > matthias > > -- > Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, ⌂ http://www.unixarea.de/ ☎ +49-176-38902045 > <dell.dmesg.txt> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"help
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