Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 07:17:23 -0600 (CST) From: James Van Artsdalen <james-freebsd-amd64@jrv.org> To: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd/amd64 on Sun Fire V20z? Message-ID: <200402131317.i1DDHNku021337@bigtex.jrv.org> In-Reply-To: <200402131244.i1DCiL7q061871@lurza.secnetix.de> (message from Oliver Fromme on Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:44:21 %2B0100 (CET)) References: <200402131244.i1DCiL7q061871@lurza.secnetix.de>
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> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:44:21 +0100 (CET) > From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> > > Does ayone happen to have an idea whether FreeBSD/amd64 will run on > a Sun Fire V20z? If it doesn't, I assume that FreeBSD/i386 will do > for the moment, right? > > http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/ Since it can use "customer provided" Windows and SUSE linux the boot environment is probably normal enough for FreeBSD/amd64 to boot. The main thing to check is to make sure the onboard NIC and SCSI controllers are supported. The other thing of course is to make sure there's no critical app you need that isn't amd64 ported yet.
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