From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 17 17:58:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA22053 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 17:58:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from DGS.dgsys.com (root@dgs.dgsys.com [204.97.64.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA21993 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 17:56:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from justine.elastica.com by DGS.dgsys.com (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AB01687; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 20:56:15 -0500 Received: (from robert@localhost) by justine.elastica.com (8.7.4/8.7.3) id KAA00750; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 10:57:23 -0500 (EST) To: "Bryan K. Ogawa" Subject: Re: Computer purchase for FreeBSD References: From: robert@elastica.com (Robert Nicholson) In-Reply-To: "Bryan K. Ogawa"'s message of Sat, 16 Mar 1996 22:21:14 -0800 (PST) Date: 17 Mar 1996 10:57:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Bryan K. Ogawa"'s message of Sat, 16 Mar 1996 22:21:14 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: Organization: x Lines: 46 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk writes: >I'm looking to get a system to run FreeBSD (and Windows95, probably) >on. I'm willing to put a fair amount of money into it (this is the >first new computer I've bought in about 5 years), and I'm looking for >some recommendations. I am planning on running X and probably >2.1-stable (although I would prefer to do a CD install instead of a >net-install of FreeBSD). I'd appreciate any comments you would like >to make on the component choices I'm proposing. Since I'm asking many >questions, feel free to skip over as many as you want. >You are welcome to direct a copy of comments to me as well as to the >list; I'm subscribed to the list, but on another account (so I'll see >them later rather than sooner). Here is the spec I've got that I'm happy with.... P133 ASUS TP4XEG with 512K pipe cache 32 EDO DTC (that's DTC) 3130B NCR scsi ii based controller Quantum Atlas 4GIG SB16 Matrox Millenium 4MB (This will require Accelerated X to work) HP 1533A DDS2 DAT drive Toshiba 3701B 6.7 CD-ROM drive Cogent C960 ethernet card. Nanao T2-17 (sony tube) color monitor. (IMHO The best 17inch on the planet) This all works happily with freebsd and there's a boot kernel on the CD to get this load up and running for an install. -- "Under the circumstances I will sit down." (PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)