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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Need HW/Drive purchase advice
Date: 28 Feb 1995 13:27:30 +0100
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Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> wrote:
>I would like to run FreeBSD on a Compaq Presario 900 (486SX, 8Meg RAM, 398
>Meg IDE HD, IDE CD ROM). Since there is a lot of stuff on the HD that we
^^^^^^^^^^ they are not yet supported, btw (FreeBSD, at least)
>Is 1 GB enough? Should I get 2GB?
Huh? What are'ya gonna do? I'm keeping the entire FreeBSD CVS tree,
one checked-out copy of the source tree, one full copy of the XFree86
beta source tree, and some useful stuff on ~1.2 GB.
>What manufactor should I get buy the drive from?
One who will warrant you for five years. (You can take whatever brand
you will, there will be always someone who can tell you that he's made
bad experience with just this brand.)
>Since I will be without the normal IDE drive, will an Adaptec SCSI
>controller and Seagate external drive work? Would you rather buy an IDE
As long as the Adaptec can boot at all, yes (some Adaptec's don't boot
if they are located at a non-standard IO address).
>drive? Any recomendations on the drive/controller?
IDE? BY NO MEANS!
You didn't tell us the bus system your machine has. For PCI, get one
of the cheap NCR controllers (53c810), they do a great job for very
few bucks. For other bus systems, BusLogic seems to be nice.
I'm using Maxtor (MXT-1280S, now almost unknown) and Seagate Hawk series
(at work) with good results.
>How much RAM should I add?
Depends. If you're going to run X11, start with 16 MB total RAM.
If you can effort it, $$ spent into RAM are never wrong (more RAM is
often the better choice as opposed to a faster CPU).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)