From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 25 19:18:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6576137B401 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:18:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1347343E91 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:18:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 8176681480; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:48:27 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:48:27 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Administrator Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An old sparc 50mhz 64bit workstation - can it run *bsd? Message-ID: <20020926021827.GB10532@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <000d01c26500$e3a06420$6400a8c0@windows> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000d01c26500$e3a06420$6400a8c0@windows> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 25 September 2002 at 22:03:20 -0400, Administrator wrote: > I do believe there is a port of NetBSD for sparc cpu's, but does anyone > know if it will run on open or freebsd? NetBSD doesn't run on OpenBSD or FreeBSD. OpenBSD does run on SPARC. > With preference for freebsd obviously, though I believe it's the one > least likely to take to the sparc processor. Correct. > I can get a hold of 4-5 of them hopefully from my university, and > I'd love to mess around with them. You don't say which model it is. That's crucial to the answer. But I didn't know there were any 64 bit machines that slow; I'd think that a machine of that clock speed would be something like a SPARCstation 2, which is a 32 bit machine and won't run FreeBSD. > O/T: Would any of you know what would be hiding inside a Sun > sparc-server 670 MP? (obviously my university is upgrading their > solaris computer lab ;-) ) No, but google is your friend. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message