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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: What is a good hardware setup for FreeBSD, from scratch? Message-ID: <hastyCLv8AB.HrF@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <2knl08$j3a@news.kth.se> <michaelv.762319861@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 04:25:23 GMT Lines: 36 In article <michaelv.762319861@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: >In <2knl08$j3a@news.kth.se> prl@stacken.kth.se (Ragnar Lonn) writes: > >>If I'm to buy a whole new system, piece by piece, to run FreeBSD, what >>are the best hardware choices, > >From a NetBSD perspective... > >>1. Harddisk controllers. I'd probably want a SCSI-controller. Which one? > >BusLogic -- inexpensive, fast, and great support. Make sure it's >either EISA or Vesa Local Bus (bt7xx or bt445s). ISA won't let you >use more than 16meg in your machine, and PCI isn't supported yet as >far as I know. > >Any decent newish SCSI-2 drive should give you decent performance. > >>2. Graphics card. I'd like to run X of course. > >Something S3 based *not* from Diamond. Try to get an S3 864 DRAM based, they are just hitting the market. They are cheaper than the old S3 928 VRAM based card. Try #9 1-800-GET-NINE or Actix in Santa Clara, Ca. Also, I would consider a pentium system P60 seems to be a lot cheaper thant the P66 systems. Me, I own a Pentium P66 512k cache, 16MB of memory and I love it :-) The system is from HI-Q in Sunyvale, CA. It is expensive.. Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X