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On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 07:57:32AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:43:20PM -0400, Joshua Coombs wrote:
> > If there is interest, I can start trying to scrounge up enough parts=20
> > to make a 'franken-mac' to put into the cluster.  I've built one in=20
> ..
> > Do cluster machines have to be rack mount?
>=20
> Yes.  This is one of the impediments.  Along with needing to support
> serial console and be able to be power cycled remotely.
>=20
> I've been looking for a G4 Xserve on eBay -- but all I can find now are
> G5 models. :-(

That's something I was wondering about but couldn't see in a year's
worth of archives; how SOL are we for FreeBSD on a G5 and what are the
barriers?

Ceri
--=20
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former.			  -- Einstein (attrib.)

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