RE: atom based servers

2009-11-13 Thread David Rawling
Jack Barnett opined: Curious, how did you get it installed? I used the AMD64 MemStick image on a Corsair 2GB key. It's one I had lying around and that wasn't 8x larger than the image. My motherboard doesn't have an IDE port (so, no IDE CD-ROM) and don't think booting from USB-CDROM is

Re: atom based servers

2009-11-12 Thread Robin Becker
David Rawling wrote: Hi Brian Indeed, I have a FreeBSD 8.0RC1 system running as my primary time server for the home network. Since it's an Atom 330, it fully supports 64-bit mode (an opportunity I have grasped with both hands). I have one of the Acer ION gadgets running at home and

RE: atom based servers

2009-11-12 Thread David Rawling
Robin Becker opined: ... I have one of the Acer ION gadgets running at home and that also uses the Atom 330. I cannot find any nice way to reduce the power consumption though as the 330 doesn't seem to support speedstep and my cpu is always running at 68C. Does your board provide any power

Re: atom based servers

2009-11-12 Thread Jack Barnett
Curious, how did you get it installed? My motherboard doesn't have an IDE port (so, no IDE CD-ROM) and don't think booting from USB-CDROM is supported Booting from USB Flash drive works? David Rawling wrote: -Original Message- From: Brian Whalen Sent: Thu 12/11/2009 9:26 AM I

RE: atom based servers

2009-11-11 Thread David Rawling
-Original Message- From: Brian Whalen Sent: Thu 12/11/2009 9:26 AM I see supermicro and potentially others have atom servers available, anyone tried these on freebsd with success? Brian Hi Brian Indeed, I have a FreeBSD 8.0RC1 system running as my primary time server for the home