From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Sep 2 22:56:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF27714E5E for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 22:56:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@lagrange.isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA03950 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 07:56:37 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990902095950.B43671@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 07:56:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: freebsd-sparc@FrEEBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 02-Sep-99 David O'Brien wrote: >> no, except i tried to install netbsd and the installer had some problems. >> i'm told that 1.4.1 is supposed to have fixed this. > > Agreed. Their 1.4 USENIX offering is crap. The 1.4 bits wouldn't > install on two of my Sparcs, nor my pmax boxes. Me thinks NetBSD rushed > the release a little. > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) > Rubbish! The USENIX 1.4 NetBSD dist installed without a hitch on my SPARCstation 1. No probs whatever. ...or is just me being exceptionally lucky? I an usually not:( Cheers, Micke ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.1 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message