Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:51:40 -0500 From: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca> To: Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar> Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any chance of running FreeBSD on a Sun Ultra 1? Message-ID: <400EA00C.7010900@gldis.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040121141118.GC2748@iib.unsam.edu.ar> References: <20040121141118.GC2748@iib.unsam.edu.ar>
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Fernan Aguero wrote: > 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 ... IIRC, the on board network and scsi cards are not supported (don't have functional drivers yet). > > 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? > Not at this time. -- Jeremy Faulkner http://www.gldis.ca
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