From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 11 00:44:41 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA7BE60F for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 00:44:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk) Received: from bs1.fjl.org.uk (bs1.fjl.org.uk [84.45.41.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 762D91477 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 00:44:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.35] (mux.fjl.org.uk [62.3.120.246]) (authenticated bits=0) by bs1.fjl.org.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r6B0iXuo079679 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 01:44:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk) Message-ID: <51DDFFE0.4080501@fjl.co.uk> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 01:44:16 +0100 From: Frank Leonhardt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD on HP DL585 G2 or IBM X3755 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 00:44:41 -0000 Does anyone know what my chances are of getting FreeBSD running on either of these? In particular, have you got it working? The HP DL582 has a weird Ethernet which wasn't supported beyond 7.2 (I believe), but may be back on in 9.1 (or I may be able to port the driver). The IBM X3755 is completely unknown, but looks promising. In case anyone's wondering, both of these high-end servers are now available cheap as I don't think they're supported by current versions of VM Ware or Windoze "Server". I want one because they support lots of RAM and I need all I can get to do something with Open Streetmap. If I can get one disk and the LAN working I can manage with serious storage elsewhere on the network (I can't afford SCSI disks for this project anyway!)