Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:40:04 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com> Cc: Charles Richmond <cmr@sitaranetworks.com>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware/Software Multia/UDB questions Message-ID: <20000929164004.B1155@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <lfn1grmftu.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com>; from cshenton@uucom.com on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 10:29:49AM -0400 References: <31269226357BD211979E00A0C9866DABE411FD@rios.sitaranetworks.com> <lfn1grmftu.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com>
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 10:29:49AM -0400, Chris Shenton wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 06:23:25 -0400, Charles Richmond <cmr@sitaranetworks.com> 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. Multia has builtin TGA, I'm not too sure if there is a working X server for that one. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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