Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!cygnus.com!news.zeitgeist.net!vnetnews.value.net!veenet.value.net!patrick From: patrick@veenet.value.net (Patrick Greenwell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD on singleboard PCs Date: 30 Nov 1995 17:25:31 GMT Organization: Value Net Internetwork Services Inc. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <49kpeb$khv@vnetnews.value.net> References: <49j3r1$16m@nkosi.well.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: value.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Chris Warth (csw@well.sf.ca.us) wrote: : Has anyone run FreeBSD (or any of the other BSD clones like BSDI) on : small single board computers? I know all computers are essentially : single-board, but the ones I have in mind are systems like those from : APPRO International. They can put 2 PCI-based Pentium 120s in a : single rack mounted enclosure and I want to make sure they can run : either FreeBSD and/or BSDI. : BTW, there is another company who thinks they can do a segmented PCI : bus that lets me put 4 or 5 single board PCs, each with fast-SCSI and : ethernet, all in the same enclosure! I don't know yet if they can : actually do this. I know other vendors can do this but they do it by : segmenting an ISA bus, not PCI. : Any experiences would be welcome. : -csw A) PCI still has a ways to go till it is really stable, at least under UNIX. B) While bleeding edge technology is great to talk about and lots of fun to play with, I wouldn't trust a day to day operation on what a company "thinks" they can do. -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Patrick Greenwell (510) 943-5769 voice System Administrator (510) 210-2000 modem Value Net, Inc. (510) 943-1708 fax \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/