Shadrack Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 I'm looking at getting this motherboard/processor for a BSD server. (BSD as recommended by this forum). http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...MBM-KT400D-2600 its a Soyo Dragon Ultra KT400 and an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ I've personally setup Linux on a Soyo Dragon Plus KT333 with AMD Athlon XP 2400+ and the only problems i had are sound problems, which we won't be using on the BSD server. The reason I ask, however, is I've heard that hardware compatability on OpenBSD isn't as good as where Linux is at, and I want to make sure I can make and optimized BSD kernel for the above hardware. I'm planning on also getting an ATI 9200se AGP video card for the board. I'm not planning to run X on it, just command line..so i don't think this could be an issue. The harddrives are going to be 2x120GB Seagate (8MB Cache). I don't see a problem there, as long as the motherboard's IDE interface can pick up on them. The server will be used for: MySQL/PHP/Apache Server Samba mount points (for automated backup of our windows xp machines using a crontab entry) Email Server Anonymous FTP Server anyways, A penny for your thoughts. Thanks! -Nic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the evn show Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 for the x86 architecture openbsd is compiled for i386 (for maximum compatibility) though 3.5 which ships on may 1 is going to support amd64 processors (woot woot!) including the W^X bits so for added resistance to buffer overflows etc. If you're looking to optimize for an athlon you're going to be building from source. here's the list of supported hardware: http://openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware If you can get it to boot, then you can make it run. If you're not going to be using any of the integrated sound/video/lan stuff then you shouldn't have a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrack Posted April 1, 2004 Author Share Posted April 1, 2004 right arm. learning to compile a new kernel is fuuuunnnnn..... Yeah, I'll probably go with a PCI ethernet card as I haven't been very sucessful with onboard ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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