From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Sep 29 7:30:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from Samizdat.uucom.com (samizdat.uucom.com [198.202.217.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B144537B422 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 07:30:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cshenton@localhost) by Samizdat.uucom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA04685; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:29:49 -0400 (EDT) To: Charles Richmond Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware/Software Multia/UDB questions References: <31269226357BD211979E00A0C9866DABE411FD@rios.sitaranetworks.com> From: Chris Shenton Date: 29 Sep 2000 10:29:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: Charles Richmond's message of "Fri, 29 Sep 2000 06:23:25 -0400" Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 06:23:25 -0400, Charles Richmond said: Charles> The internal drives generate a lot of heat for what is very Charles> little drive space (in today's world). Taking out the drive Charles> will do enough for the cooling. Mind you, I could be Charles> convinced otherwise if I new of a source for cheap 2.5" SCSI Charles> drives of reasonable size. I loaded up all 3 flavours of BSD Charles> on various alphas and the Multia is currently running OpenBSD Charles> 2.6. I could probably switch that around if there was an Charles> over-riding reason. How hard would it be to turn a diskless multia into a diskless X-term? I've been avoiding doing anything with mine due to fear of heat-death. If running diskless can be done -- preferably as an Xterm, not a full OS -- I'd be all over it. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message