I performed a basic installation of FreeBSD 5.4 on SULA, added MySQL packages and the NetBackup software. It is now ready for development prior to production use as a database server.

Some minor setbacks when dealing with this particular hardware. This PE1850 has 8GB of RAM, and FreeBSD doesn’t normally see anything above 4GB without the Physical Address Extension (PAE) kernel options.

• PAE extensions must be compiled into the kernel to use all the RAM.

• PAE requires that the kernel be statically linked — that is, no loadable kernel modules.

• IPFilter is not included in the base kernel by default, so it must be added to the kernel config file before making. (Or OpenBSD pf, if that is what you’re using).