From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 28 05:31:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 57D6916A403 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:31:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from f.bonnet@esiee.fr) Received: from mail.esiee.fr (mail.esiee.fr [147.215.1.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB5F043D49 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:31:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from f.bonnet@esiee.fr) Received: from mail.esiee.fr (localhost.esiee.fr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.esiee.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E5433658F1; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:33:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from secure.esiee.fr (secure.esiee.fr [147.215.1.19]) by mail.esiee.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4EDE3658ED; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:33:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (lns-bzn-42-82-255-124-119.adsl.proxad.net [82.255.124.119]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: bonnetf) by secure.esiee.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A826B398DF; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:25:29 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4542EB3C.20706@esiee.fr> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:31:40 +0200 From: Frank Bonnet User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nathan Vidican References: <45424634.9050003@vidican.com> In-Reply-To: <45424634.9050003@vidican.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Dennis Slingerland , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP 9000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:31:38 -0000 Nathan Vidican a =E9crit : > Dennis Slingerland wrote: >> Dear Sir/Madam, >> >> I would like to install FreeBSD 6.1 on a HP 9000 Machine. The CPU is a >> PA-RISC. >> I can't find any release what's compatible with it. The question is,=20 >> is it >> possible to download a FreeBSD version that runs on a HP 9000 machine = ? >> >> >> Kind Regards, >> >> >> Dennis Slingerland >> The Netherlands >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to=20 >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 > Officially, FreeBSD supports distributions for the Intel i386 (i386),=20 > Intel Itanium 64 (ia64), AMD 64/Intel EMT64 (amd64), andd Sun Sparc64=20 > platforms. There is no (official) release of FreeBSD ported to the HP=20 > 9000. That being said, I'd suggest if you must use the HP 9000 series=20 > PA-RISC architecture, to look to NetBSD. I've used NetBSD myself on=20 > someolder pa-risc boxen, but only for the sake of messing around to be=20 > honest. I'm not certain, but I believe OpenBSD has a port to the HP=20 > PA-RISC platform as well. There is also a Linux version see at http://www.parisc-linux.org/