Sun Fire X2100 Server

sam samwun at telpacific.com.au
Sun Apr 2 07:41:21 UTC 2006


dima wrote:

>>I want to installl FreeBSD 6.x in this server.
>>Does anyone know whether FreeBSD Sparc version runs very well in this 
>>machine?
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>X2100 isn't a SPARC, but AMD64. You can install either i386 or amd64 version on it. It is based on desktop motherboard with nForce Pro chipset and the first ehternet adapter wouldn't work.
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Thanks for the message. What s the first adaptor about? I know FreeBSD 
supports variety of Ethernet Adaptor, including bge (boardcom). I 
installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a HP proliant 10 months ago for my client, the 
machine has bge ethernet adaptor and it works great.

Thanks
Sam.

>>Pls see below for more info:
>>http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CEServlet?process=SunStore&cmdViewProduct_CP&catid=138714
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>>Thanks
>>Sam
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