From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 7 21:58:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 8010E16A41F for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 21:58:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bernsteinm@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19F843D45 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 21:58:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bernsteinm@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 9so3596813nzo for ; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:58:04 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:reply-to:from:to:cc:references:subject:date:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:x-mimeole; b=lXyoJ07zZz+3S/pRIJmYpHhlSJD8uFcHbuAKwqJzZeKq95iKkpusAJaUIH3FU5/ACYpDqhIhd5fTRU47FkcWzn42abya6XHSqeeb/9wi32r1DNwZWjfkiERIPga+rn0mGcn98DP8idTmN8zhveEdsPzLKOS0vBrRXLRYRq39ojI= Received: by 10.36.247.78 with SMTP id u78mr10186662nzh; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:58:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from montana9 ( [71.225.151.154]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 38sm6835690nza.2006.01.07.13.58.02; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:58:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <019f01c613d4$c3a39530$7d026496@montana9> From: "Michael Bernstein" To: "Robert Slade" , "jasonharback" References: <000601c6133d$0c463ba0$6500a8c0@ctusf.org> <1136619829.15229.23.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 16:53:13 -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 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sparc vs i386 architecture X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Michael Bernstein List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:58:05 -0000 Hi group, I was just wondering if there's an advantage to running FreeBSD on a SPARC than compared with a regular PC. Obviously the architecture is different (CISC vs RISC). How ever you can purchase a higher powered PC box for less money than it would cost for a SPARC. The main advantage I'm seeing here is for security. It's going to be harder to break into a SPARC running FreeBSD than an Intel/Amd running FreeBSD b/c most machine code exploits will be for the i386 type architecture. Any insights are much appreciated. Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Slade" To: "jasonharback" Cc: Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 2:43 AM Subject: Re: Sparc dual boot problems > On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 03:47, jasonharback wrote: > > Here's the situation > > > > > > > > The machine is a SUN ULTRA 5 and I have 4 IDE devices. I am new to SUN hardware I know much more about PC's. The first device primary master is the cdrom which Solaris 10 and FreeBSD were successfully installed from. Currently Solaris 10 which is the primary slave is the default boot device. FreeBSD is installed on the primary slave drive. I am used to the FreeBSD install on a PC and during that install it gave time for configuring the boot loader but I can't find it on the recent Sparc FreeBSD edition? During the partition process it says I will have the option to configure the boot loader latter. Right now I can't boot FreeBSD and I have no idea how to configure this machine to make it dual boot? I would like to have Solaris 10 as the primary O/S, FreeBSD as the secondary and Sparc Linux on the third hd. > > > > > > > > Can you please help? > > > > Jason Harback > > Jason, > > You don't need to use a boot loader with the U5, just boot to the promt > (Stop A). Then just type boot followed by the alias of the slice you > want to boot. > > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"