Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 13:29:08 +0800 From: "Gallagher, James" <james.gallagher@misys.com> To: "'drpatrick@netzero.com'" <drpatrick@netzero.com>, freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Sparcbook 3GX Message-ID: <A99171D862A6D511A8F700B0D0D1307F02ED35AA@singex2.misys.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: drpatrick@netzero.com [mailto:drpatrick@netzero.com] > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 13:12 PM > To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org > Subject: Sparcbook 3GX > > > > > To whom this may concern, > I'm trying to find out if FreeBSD 5.2 will support the > sparcbook 3gx laptop. I bought the FreeBSD 5.2 and it had > i386 written on it and I wanted to know if this version is > for only x86 architecture. Please advise on what steps I need > to take to obtain the FreeBSD OS for my sparcbook 3gx. Thanks > for taking the time to read this email. > > D. Patrick. > I think you're out of luck, have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html for the supported hardware with sparc64. You might have better luck trying NetBSD on it? I have a SparcStation 20 running NetBSD 2.0 quite successfully as it wasn't able to use FreeBSD unfortunately. James
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