Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 09:39:04 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Paredes =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E1nchez_Mart=EDn_A=2E?= <MPAREDES@telmex.com> Cc: "BSD." <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sparc station 5 Message-ID: <20030504083904.GA35625@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <35BC9957B8699C42AB3A665E3C5656556CAD80@tmxmailhmo1.intranet.telmex.com> References: <35BC9957B8699C42AB3A665E3C5656556CAD80@tmxmailhmo1.intranet.telmex.com>
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On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 03:53:53PM -0700, Paredes Sánchez Martín A. wrote:
> Can I install Free BSD in a Sparc Station 5?
Unlikely: the FreeBSD Sparc port requires a "sun4u" 64bit UltraSparc
III processor. The SS5 uses a 'sun4m' 32bit MicroSparc II processor.
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/hardware-sparc64.html
The Sparc Station 5 is however capable of running netbsd:
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc/
or OpenBSD:
http://www.openbsd.org/sparc.html
Cheers,
Matthew
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