From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 13 23:36:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EDCE16A4CE for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:36:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31B5543D46 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:36:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from assadbsd@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 77so301482rnk for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:36:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.171.26 with SMTP id t26mr1749726rne; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:36:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.75.35 with HTTP; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:36:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:36:20 -0700 From: 3BSD To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Subject: State of 5.3 on Sun Blade 100 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: 3BSD List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:36:23 -0000 Hi, I originally sent this e-mail to freebsd-questions mailing-list, and someone pointed me to this mailing-list for answers, anyhow, here goes: I have a couple of Sun Blade 100 workstations, and I would like to install FreeBSD on one or both of them. The last time I tried (5.1-R, and I read that the situation has not improved much with either 5.2 or 5.2.1), there was no keyboard/mouse/floppy support and you had to install FreeBSD using a serial console. Has that (or will that) change with 5.3-RELEASE/STABLE? I would like to use one of the Blade 100s as a dedicated workstation, and if 5.3-R works fine, I'll buy a nice LCD display for it. Anyone care to shed some light on this? P.S. Please CC me a reply, since I'm not subscribed to the list. Thank you. -Assad