FreeBSD v6.2-RELEASE with Compaq ProLiant 6400R

[jonathan michaels]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 05:30:54PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 27 September 2007 01:11:40 pm jonathan michaels wrote:
> > > > can anyone help, suggest, i have also down-load some of teh relevant
> > > > doc's on teh HP/Compaq web-site and read, read and more read ...
> > > > 
> > > > most kind regards/appreciations
> > > 
> > > What did you set the OS type to in Smart Start?  If you used "other" then 
> try
> > > using a different setting such as "Novell Netware" or "UnixWare".
> > 
> > i used solaris, for some reason that seemed the most sensible to use,
> > for as far as i could recall solaris was the most "bsd" like ??
> 
> For Compaq's purposes, FreeBSD is not anything like Solaris.  Other users (if 
> you do a simple web search like I did when I replied to your e-mail) have had 
> success with the options I mentioned above.

yes i did try for many hours, that is why i finally asked here. i was
not getting anywhere in my attempts, it is hard for me to "use" and
then to understand teh results

> > dies the difference in teh memory seen/available have anything t do
> > with this ?? the machine has a little over 4 gb real dram, smart start
> > claims ththat ther is ony 3G8 but freebsd says that it starts with 3G6.
> 
> Assuming you are using FreeBSD/i386 and that you get it installed ok, you can 
> try using a PAE kernel to get access to the full 4 GB of RAM.

muchly appreciated, thank your for your time and effort

kind regards

jonathan

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