Re: freebsd for Sun Fire X4250

2010-01-14 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 11:45 +1100, Sam Wun wrote: > Hi Gavin, > > The reason I want to stick with i386 is because about few years ago > when I tried AMD release of FreeBSD, it didn't have the same level of > proficiency as i386 release of FreeBSD - packagThat was my impression > at that time. I ho

Re: freebsd for Sun Fire X4250

2010-01-11 Thread 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 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

Re: freebsd for Sun Fire X4250

2010-01-11 Thread Sam Wun
Hi Gavin, The reason I want to stick with i386 is because about few years ago when I tried AMD release of FreeBSD, it didn't have the same level of proficiency as i386 release of FreeBSD - packagThat was my impression at that time. I hope it has changed in this years. Is there any major installati

Re: freebsd for Sun Fire X4250

2010-01-11 Thread Gavin Atkinson
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 realy give enough spec details), I'd be surprised if it

freebsd for Sun Fire X4250

2010-01-10 Thread Sam Wun
Hi, This server is built with Xeon cpu processor, Intel based. Can FreeBSD 8+ fully compatible with this server like those ordinary Intel i386 machine? Thanks SW ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-