From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 8:45: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cask.force9.net (cask.force9.net [195.166.128.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED65115169 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 08:45:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk) Received: (qmail 25280 invoked from network); 4 Oct 1999 15:44:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk) (212.56.111.191) by cask.force9.net with SMTP; 4 Oct 1999 15:44:54 -0000 Message-ID: <37F8CB4C.26A3C6A0@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 16:44:12 +0100 From: Richard Morte Organization: Sinclair Associates X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en-GB, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "K. Gunderson" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Need Advice on New PC for FreeBSD References: <37F7C2B0.A01DC28A@earthlink.net> <19991003204253.C7304@mark.iacan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "K. Gunderson" wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 05:01:30PM -0400, Brad Chapman wrote: > > Hello; > > I am putting together a new computer from scratch to run FreeBSD and > > a database (MySQL) backed web server (under Apache). Although I am > > familiar with the FreeBSD OS and other stuff, I'm a newbie in terms of > > assembling computers. Does anyone have recommendations for components to > > build a good system? ie. if you could build your own computer, what > > would you put on it? Just trying to collect info and I would appreciate > > any advice anyone could give me. Thanks. > > I have built a few boxes from scratch and brought FreBSD up on. I've > sort of settled on a config that I like, here's the makeup of the last 4 > boxes: > > ABIT BX6r2 motherboard > Celeron 300a (overclocked to 450 MHz) > Micron PC100 ECC Ram (ouch! just got *really* expensive) > IBM Deskstar HD, 10.2 gig > Trident AGP graphics card, 4MB (I don't do xwindows) > Netgear 310 TX 10/100 NIC > > Now I know that somefolks have had trouble with the Netgear cards, but > they have worked well for me and are half the cost of the Intel cards. Yes, I too have just installed the Netgear FA310TX boards. FreeBSD is compatible with the revision D1 boards, but mine are revision D2 and work just fine. > Most of the boxes I build end up being servers and I don't bother with a > cd-rom drive. Same goes for modems. On the ones I do, I like the Toshiba > drives and USR/3Com (obviously stay away from Winmodems). I had real problems with an internal PCI Zoom modem so stay away from those. I exchanged it for an external 3com V90 modem; the latter works really well. Richard Morte > > Hope this helps you out some. > > -- > Ciao--Ken > http://www.y2know.org/safari > > Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product. > > 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