Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 22:03:10 -0500 From: "Charles Pelletier" <fozekizer@attbi.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: An old sparc 50mhz 64bit workstation - can it run *bsd? Message-ID: <00d501c26509$3f3eda70$32040101@hume> References: <000d01c26500$e3a06420$6400a8c0@windows> <20020926021827.GB10532@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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google should be more than a friend :-) --charlie pelletier --litmus(mp3.com/litmus) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "Administrator" <administrator@administrat0r.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> 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
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