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Date:      Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:43:30 -0500
From:      "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net>
To:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: dual boot: FreeBSD and Solaris 8
Message-ID:  <00e801c0a675$b8928b50$0f00000a@eagle>
In-Reply-To: <200103061939.LAA63866@akira.lanfear.com>

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	From what I've been able to gather during my experience with FreeBSD,
there is a SPARC port in the works, but it's not exactly mature (i.e.
most of the code, last I heard, had been cannibalized from OpenBSD).
If you feel the need to run a BSD variant on a SPARC platform, try
NetBSD or OpenBSD...

--- Andy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Marc W
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 2:40 PM
> To: cschindl@wam.umd.edu; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re:dual boot: FreeBSD and Solaris 8
>
>     Last I heard, FreeBSD doesn't run on Sparcs -- it supports
> x86/alpha only thus far ( i believe ia64 is under development).  You
> want NetBSD or Linux for Sparcs ...
>
>     marc.
>
> > -----------------------------
> > From:  cache money <cschindl@wam.umd.edu>
> > To:  freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject:  dual boot: FreeBSD and Solaris 8
> > Sent:  03/06/01 14:15>
> >
> >
> > hello all
> >
> > i have a sparc ultra 5 running solaris 8 and i want to
> dual boot with
> > FreeBSD.  does anyone here know how to install FreeBSD on a sparc
> > station?


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