From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 10:05:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B368916A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:05:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7619843D41 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:05:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mnsan11@earthlink.net) Received: from h-68-164-9-27.chcgilgm.dynamic.covad.net ([68.164.9.27] helo=sysadmin.ods.org) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1B5Tnt-0003v7-00; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:05:37 -0800 Received: from earthlink.net (VICE [192.168.1.33]) by sysadmin.ods.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA8992D1EAF; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:06:22 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <405F2AED.205@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:05:33 -0600 From: Elvedin User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: George Simonishvili References: <405F1952.3090305@parliament.ge> In-Reply-To: <405F1952.3090305@parliament.ge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Dell Servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:05:39 -0000 George Simonishvili wrote: > To whom it may concern. > We need to install FreeBSD 4.9 on Dell server , and we need to find > out on which Dell server it supports. > Currently we have Dell Power Edge 1600C server it's a small business > level server and on that same small business server we need to install > FreeBSD but we don't know on which SmallBusiness server supports > FreeBSD 4.9 os. > > Kind Regards, George Simonishvili > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Generally speaking, if it's a Intel/AMD based system, it will be supported in FreeBSD although the other hardware such as SCSI/RAID controllers, video cards and etc might not be. FreeBSD has good hardware support but it usually takes a release until the drivers come with FreeBSD install. You can check the hardware support notes at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.9R/hardware-i386.html Summary: Dell SC servers are most likely supported in FreeBSD. -- Elvedin T. sysadmin.ods.org ODS.org