From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 12:55:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD7AF16A4CF for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:55:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from pm6500.larkowski.net (d60-65-144-182.col.wideopenwest.com [65.60.182.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3047A43D2D for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:55:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@larkowski.net) Received: from localhost (peter@localhost) by pm6500.larkowski.net (8.11.6p3/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i2MKtO712019 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:55:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:55:23 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Larkowski To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20040322172557.GA7442@mavra.perilith.com> Message-ID: References: <20040322144432.47350.qmail@web21507.mail.yahoo.com> <20040322172557.GA7442@mavra.perilith.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: sparc64 on donovan X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:55:25 -0000 On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, a clever sheep wrote: > sorry to reply to a reply but i've lost the original message. > > according to the spec page it says it's using an ultra axe mainboard > with a 300mhz cpu on it. i have one of those that i got from ebay some > time ago and it was running some version of 5 with a working vinum for > quite a while. i don't recall any difficulties installing and using it, > however i did perform a network install rather than trying to use local > media. > I run a post 5.2.1-current on an Ultra AXe board as well. It works just fine when doing an ftp install of 5.2 (boot from cd, but choose ftp as install media), but it always crashed during a cd install. Also, 5.1 would never install at all for me, but 5.0 worked ok. -p