From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 30 15:30:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pokey.local.net (arc9-104.arl.netwalk.net [216.69.202.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17C6C15195 for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 15:30:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmutter@netwalk.com) Received: from insomnia.local.net (insomnia.local.net [192.168.2.3]) by pokey.local.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA08772; Sun, 30 May 1999 18:29:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jmutter@insomnia.local.net) Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 18:33:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@netwalk.com To: Dennis Rice Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: general info In-Reply-To: <000701beaae5$277a1ee0$32c92bcf@darice.negia.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD won't run on the SPARC machines, not yet anyhow. At one time there was an effort to make this happen, however I haven't heard anything about it in quite some time, I think it's dead. Now, you can't run FreeBSD on that machine, but NetBSD will certainly run on it, and it's likely that OpenBSD will run on it as well. Good luck! Jim On Sun, 30 May 1999, Dennis Rice wrote: : I have an older model Sun Sparc station. I want it to be a :stand-alone machine. I am trying to find out if freeBSD will :support my hardware. It is a UNIX machine. Any help would :be greatly appreciated. : : You can also send a reply to: nrice@arches.uga.edu : : Thanks. : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message