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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Hardware for FreeBSD fileserver. -Help-
Date: 15 Feb 1995 17:41:00 +0100
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>Eric T. Duda (e_duda@oz.plymouth.edu) wrote:
>If you're only using this machine as a server, buy a really cheap
>256K VGA and a mono-VGA monitor, or even a Herc card and monitor.
>Why waste $150 on monitor and card for a console?
Or you can even use a serial console. If you happen to have some
terminal sitting around, or another box where you can run a kermit on,
this will be sufficient. Recent FreeBSD versions do also have
bootblocks that can do `serial' io (though i won't recommend you
FreeBSD 2.0 or -current for a heavy-loaded server, wait for 2.1 or use
1.1.5.1).
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