From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Sep 29 7:39: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84BCD37B422 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 07:38:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 13f1Ip-00046l-00; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:38:19 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8TEe4s01232; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:40:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:40:04 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Chris Shenton Cc: Charles Richmond , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware/Software Multia/UDB questions Message-ID: <20000929164004.B1155@freebie.demon.nl> References: <31269226357BD211979E00A0C9866DABE411FD@rios.sitaranetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from cshenton@uucom.com on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 10:29:49AM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 10:29:49AM -0400, Chris Shenton wrote: > 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. 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