Does anyone know what my chances are of getting FreeBSD running on either of these? Ideally, if you're actually doing it I'd really like to hear about it.
I believe HP DL582 has a weird Ethernet which wasn't supported in 8 but was okay in 7.2 (an option - I liked 7.2). I don't know about 9.1 (or I may be able to port the driver). The IBM X3755 is completely unknown to me.
In case anyone's wondering, both of these high-end servers are now available cheap, as I don't think they're supported by current versions of VM Ware or Windows Server. I want one because they support lots of RAM and I need all I can get to do something with Open Streetmap. Unfortunately I've never seen one of either of these, at least with the lid off, never mind trying to install FreeBSD.
Incidentally, I don't particularly care about high-end Ethernet or RAID controllers they might have, as long as I can boot them somehow and get /an/ Ethernet card working I can happily use them chomp through the XML over NFS. I don't even know if they support PCI slots.
I believe HP DL582 has a weird Ethernet which wasn't supported in 8 but was okay in 7.2 (an option - I liked 7.2). I don't know about 9.1 (or I may be able to port the driver). The IBM X3755 is completely unknown to me.
In case anyone's wondering, both of these high-end servers are now available cheap, as I don't think they're supported by current versions of VM Ware or Windows Server. I want one because they support lots of RAM and I need all I can get to do something with Open Streetmap. Unfortunately I've never seen one of either of these, at least with the lid off, never mind trying to install FreeBSD.
Incidentally, I don't particularly care about high-end Ethernet or RAID controllers they might have, as long as I can boot them somehow and get /an/ Ethernet card working I can happily use them chomp through the XML over NFS. I don't even know if they support PCI slots.