I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server; recommendations?

Dan Bikle dan.bikle at gmail.com
Sat Jul 22 20:30:51 UTC 2006


Well,

it turns out that ordering a computer from Walmart was a mistake.

They sent me the wrong computer.

I don't understand why.  The item listed in my online order was
clearly different than the item printed on the packing list attached
to the shipping box.

Perhaps they have a literacy problem in their warehouse.

At least the return was easy; I just took the box to my local
Walmart and they accepted it and then put the correct credit
on my credit card.

Then, I went to Frys.
I showed the spec of the Walmart machine that I wanted.

They easily beat Walmart with an 'open-box' special which is
a customer returned computer still under warranty.

I got an HP Pavilion a1340n for about $500.
It has 1G RAM,
250G HD,
1 R-W DVD drive
and 1 R-O DVD drive.
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&product=1818054&dlc=&docname=c00575715

It has an ATI grapics card but I'm not sure how to use
a shell command to give me information about it.

I looked at dmesg output and saw nothing about the grapics card.

How might I get info about my graphics card?

Thanks,
-Dan



On 6/18/06, Dan Bikle <dan.bikle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well folks,
>
> I did a bit more looking around.
>
> I found this:
> http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3762910
>
> specs:
> CPU: AMD Sempron 3000+
>
> It is so cheap I'm tempted to buy it and take the risk that
> I could install a recent version of FreeBSD on it.
>
> Since it comes with Linux installed on it,
> I'm tempted to think that the interface cards for the Video
> and the keyboard, and the mouse are a common variety.
>
> I have a question for any of you who have done a lot of FreeBSD installs
> on a variety of hardware...
> Would you gamble $368 that you could get FreeBSD installed on this thing?
>
> -Dan
>
> On 6/17/06, Dan Bikle <dan.bikle at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > I worked with the links you sent me.
> > For desktop systems I narrowed the list to these offerings:
> >
> > http://www.asaservers.com/config.asp?config_id=ASA%5FPC5
> > http://www.storeanywhere.com/pages/html/products/st.product_info.php?cPath=53&products_id=143
> >
> > http://eracks.com/products/Desktops
> >
> > -Dan
> >
> >
> >
> > On 6/17/06, Nikolas Britton < nikolas.britton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 6/17/06, Dan Bikle < dan.bikle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server.
> > > >
> > > > Do you have any recommendations for some vendors?
> > > >
> > > > I could go buy some commodity hardware and do the install myself
> > > > but I seem to have bad luck with hands-on type tasks.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not picky about CPU; Intel or AMD is fine.
> > > > Anything over 1.5 GHZ should do it.
> > > >
> > > > RAM?
> > > > I guess 1GB would be good enough.
> > > >
> > > > Disk?
> > > > A couple of 80GB drives would work.
> > > >
> > > > I live in San Jose, CA; A local vendor would be great.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Your in luck, these guys are in San Jose:
> > > http://www.ironsystems.com/index.asp
> > >
> > > Here's the full list of venders:
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/hardware.html
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > BSD Podcasts @:
> > > http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/
> > > http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
> > >
> >
> >
>


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