Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:11:18 -0300 From: Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar> To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: any chance of running FreeBSD on a Sun Ultra 1? Message-ID: <20040121141118.GC2748@iib.unsam.edu.ar>
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Hi! I am a FreeBSD user, but my experience is limited to i386 hardaware. Recently, our lab received an old Ultra 1 from Sun. It is currently running Solaris 8, but I'd like to investigate the possibility of running FreeBSD (or perhaps some other OS). It seems that the Ultra 1 is unsupported, but does that mean that it will not boot/run FreeBSD? Or just that no work is being done from the sparc@ project? If it's possible to netboot it, I can set up some shared NFS partitions on my i386 machine to hold what's necessary ... Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Fernan PS: BTW, is there such a thing as a 'Solaris binary compatibility' as there is for Linux in i386? I mean, may I be able to run Solaris sparc binaries on FreeBSD-sparc? -- F e r n a n A g u e r o http://genoma.unsam.edu.ar/~fernan
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