freebsd for Sun Fire X4250

[Paul Schmehl]

We have a SunFire 420 running amd64 FreeBSD release 7.2.  I doubt you will 
have a problem.

--On January 11, 2010 5:05:04 PM -0600 Gavin Atkinson <gavin at FreeBSD.org> 
wrote:

>
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Sam Wun wrote:
>> This server is built with Xeon cpu processor, Intel based.
>> Can FreeBSD 8+ fully compatible with this server like those ordinary
>> Intel i386 machine?
>
> Although it's hard to say (the Sun website doesn't really give enough 
spec
> details), I'd be surprised if it doesn't work.  FreeBSD runs very nicely
> on every Intel- and amd64-based Sun machine I've tried it on.
>
> You'll almost certainly want to use the FreeBSD amd64 release rather than
> i386, and I'd probably recommend 8.0-RELEASE, although 7.2 should work
> fine.
>
> By the way, this is the wrong list for questions like this: if you have
> any others, you're probably best off directing them to
> freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.org
>
> Gavin
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Paul Schmehl, If it isn't already
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