From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 1 23:42:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA16889 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 May 1997 23:42:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA16884 for ; Thu, 1 May 1997 23:42:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id JAA18133; Fri, 2 May 1997 09:40:44 +0300 (IDT) Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 09:40:44 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron To: Miki Janosi cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What to buy? In-Reply-To: <1EDF0E05FC@numacorp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 1 May 1997, Miki Janosi wrote: > I want to buy a machine specifically for FreeBSD. I have version > 2.1.0 but plan on buying a new CD of the latest version. And I'd like > some tips. This is what I plan on buying. > > Cyrix 6x6 +200 motherboard > 2940 Adaptec SCSI controller If you can get your hands on one that doesn't have an 'A' in it's part number that's better (i.e. 2940 is better than 2940A, etc.) > 16x CD-ROM IDE (Mitsumi?) Don't know about the rest, but IDE CD-ROMs are a pain, especially if you don't have an IDE disk. Go for a SCSI CD-ROM, since you already have the SCSI controller. > 8 GB SCSI HD (Seagate?) > SCSI Tape Drive (Seagate?) > Video Card Matrix Mellanium 8MB > Sound Blaster > > I have an agreement that if I can't get the hardware to work with > FreeBSD I can swap till I get it to work! Please send responses to my > e-mail address since I got my WWW connection taken away and then had > to quit the mailing list because of bosses orders. > --------------------------------------------------------- > Miki Janosi NUMA Corporation, Akron, OH > Tel: (330) 925-5000 x.455 email: mjanosi@numacorp.com > Nadav