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Date:      Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:04:03 +0100
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
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:  <xzp4quot6zw.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20040121141118.GC2748@iib.unsam.edu.ar> (Fernan Aguero's message of "Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:11:18 -0300")
References:  <20040121141118.GC2748@iib.unsam.edu.ar>

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Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar> writes:
> 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?

it means we don't have a driver for the on-board SCSI controller, so
you can't boot FreeBSD from disk on an U1.

> If it's possible to netboot it, I can set up some shared NFS
> partitions on my i386 machine to hold what's necessary ...

it should be possible to netboot it if it has an hme NIC.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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