On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 8:17 AM MLH <m...@goathill.org> wrote: > > My ~10 yr old i3-based box needs to be updated. I can't compile > anything nontrivial without the box rebooting anymore. I am far > out of the loop on what NetBSD can run on these days. I have a > Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 that works very well and can use it and > I would like to go with ssd as my old hds are starting to fail. > My current motherboard is supposed to support (an early version > of) efi but I never could get it to work. I suspect it only booted > off of efi dvds and not hds. > > Huge numbers of choices these days but does anyone have recommendations > on moderately-priced options that work well with NetBSD?
I've got a server that has existed since 1.4.2. I get all of this that you're talking about. I just slowly upgrade hardware over time, probably the same as you. It's a dual core Celeron with 8 gigs of memory at the moment. I've been using rsync and dump/restore to move to new disks. High quality SSDs are really cheap as long as you don't need a lot of space. Like $30-40 for a 500 gig? I accidentally "upgraded" from i386 to amd64 when I went to NetBSD-9. Even that went relatively smoothly. I'm looking hard at moving to something arm64 based. Maybe a pi4 or a Rock64 or something. NetBSD seems to run pretty well on these. I don't have specific advice unfortunately. Most everything I try just works. Andy
