Re: HP ProLiant server running NetBSD 9 setup suggestions?

2020-05-26 Thread David Brownlee
On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 11:55, Sad Clouds wrote: > > On Tue, 26 May 2020 11:03:41 +0100 > David Brownlee wrote: > > > If you do find fans spinning more than you like it may be worth > > replacing it/them with quieter/more efficient models - I did this for > > the main case fan on a Dell T320 and n

Re: HP ProLiant server running NetBSD 9 setup suggestions?

2020-05-26 Thread Sad Clouds
On Tue, 26 May 2020 11:03:41 +0100 David Brownlee wrote: > If you do find fans spinning more than you like it may be worth > replacing it/them with quieter/more efficient models - I did this for > the main case fan on a Dell T320 and now have it running with a 16 > core E5-2450L and 8 SATA drives

Re: HP ProLiant server running NetBSD 9 setup suggestions?

2020-05-26 Thread David Brownlee
On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 22:07, Chris Hanson wrote: > > One of the drives failed and I’d set the drives up as a single volume, oops. > > I brought up Windows temporarily to do the one firmware update I didn’t seem > to be able to do any other way (the storage controller) and then reinstalled > Net

Re: HP ProLiant server running NetBSD 9 setup suggestions?

2020-05-25 Thread Chris Hanson
One of the drives failed and I’d set the drives up as a single volume, oops. I brought up Windows temporarily to do the one firmware update I didn’t seem to be able to do any other way (the storage controller) and then reinstalled NetBSD. Now that I’ve reinstalled, have a dmesg: https://dmesgd

Re: HP ProLiant server running NetBSD 9 setup suggestions?

2020-05-21 Thread Chris Hanson
Now that I have a couple drives for it, I’ve done a bare install of NetBSD 9.0 and it’s working great! The system is very quiet, very fast given its age, and everything seems to have Just Worked! Thanks, everyone! -- Chris

Re: HP ProLiant server running NetBSD 9 setup suggestions?

2020-05-20 Thread Dima Veselov
And, perhaps most importantly, is there anything I should install, configure, or tune to keep the fans nice and quiet? Booting the NetBSD 9.0 installer from a USB key, the system was plenty quiet, but I know those fans can move a lot of air if they have to. I have one myself in the basement.

Re: HP ProLiant server running NetBSD 9 setup suggestions?

2020-05-20 Thread Dima Veselov
On 20.05.2020 22:21, Chris Hanson wrote: And, perhaps most importantly, is there anything I should install, configure, or tune to keep the fans nice and quiet? Booting the NetBSD 9.0 installer from a USB key, the system was plenty quiet, but I know those fans can move a lot of air if they h

Re: HP ProLiant server running NetBSD 9 setup suggestions?

2020-05-20 Thread Chris Hanson
> On May 20, 2020, at 12:57 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> In fact the BIOS, iLO, etc. updates are on the HPE web site, which is >> something I verified before purchasing. (Which I’d encourage everyone to do >> if they’re going to do something like this, of course.) > > Yeah, I did the same thing

Re: HP ProLiant server running NetBSD 9 setup suggestions?

2020-05-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 3:21 PM Chris Hanson wrote: > > On May 20, 2020, at 1:08 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 12:49 AM Chris Hanson > > wrote: > >> > >> And, perhaps most importantly, is there anything I should install, > >> configure, or tune to keep the fans nice

Re: HP ProLiant server running NetBSD 9 setup suggestions?

2020-05-20 Thread Chris Hanson
On May 20, 2020, at 1:08 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 12:49 AM Chris Hanson > wrote: >> >> And, perhaps most importantly, is there anything I should install, >> configure, or tune to keep the fans nice and quiet? Booting the NetBSD 9.0 >> installer from a USB key, the

Re: HP ProLiant server running NetBSD 9 setup suggestions?

2020-05-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 12:49 AM Chris Hanson wrote: > > And, perhaps most importantly, is there anything I should install, configure, > or tune to keep the fans nice and quiet? Booting the NetBSD 9.0 installer > from a USB key, the system was plenty quiet, but I know those fans can move a > lo

Re: HP ProLiant server running NetBSD 9 setup suggestions?

2020-05-19 Thread Andreas Gustafsson
Chris Hanson wrote: > I just got an HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 on which I plan to run NetBSD, > primarily to serve files and do some light emulation. (Things like > VAX on SIMH, not arcade games on MAME.) Unfortunately I don’t have > disks for it yet so I can’t set things up, but I realized that gave