From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 25 20: 6:37 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 901FC37B401; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 20:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C243743E4A; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 20:06:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fozekizer@attbi.com) Received: from hume ([12.239.154.32]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020926030634.DOL28420.sccrmhc03.attbi.com@hume>; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 03:06:34 +0000 Message-ID: <00d501c26509$3f3eda70$32040101@hume> From: "Charles Pelletier" To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: References: <000d01c26500$e3a06420$6400a8c0@windows> <20020926021827.GB10532@wantadilla.lemis.com> Subject: Re: An old sparc 50mhz 64bit workstation - can it run *bsd? Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 22:03:10 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 google should be more than a friend :-) --charlie pelletier --litmus(mp3.com/litmus) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" To: "Administrator" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 9:18 PM Subject: Re: An old sparc 50mhz 64bit workstation - can it run *bsd? > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message