DL 120 G5 Freebsd 5.4

[kama]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Rainer Duffner wrote:

> b-boy schrieb:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Has anyone attempted to run 5.4 on a dl120 g5 ? My client wants to order
> > this box but I'm not sure if 5.4 has the drivers to run on it.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
>
> Is there a business reason why he wants to run 5.4, of all things?
>
> 5.4 is EOL - I'm not sure it has support for the ICH that this board uses.
>

Im not sure, but I think you dont have support for the NIC. The DL380G5
uses bce instead of bge. I think you need to go up to 6.3 to get bce in
the system.

Try running FreeBSD 7.1 w COMPAT5 installed if its a binary that needs
FreeBSD 5.4.

/Bjorn