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Date:      Sun, 4 May 2003 09:39:04 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Paredes =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E1nchez_Mart=EDn_A=2E?= <MPAREDES@telmex.com>
Cc:        "BSD." <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sparc station 5
Message-ID:  <20030504083904.GA35625@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 03:53:53PM -0700, Paredes S=E1nchez Mart=EDn A. wro=
te:
> Can I install Free BSD in a Sparc Station 5?

Unlikely: the FreeBSD Sparc port requires a "sun4u" 64bit UltraSparc
III processor.  The SS5 uses a 'sun4m' 32bit MicroSparc II processor.

    http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/hardware-sparc64.html

The Sparc Station 5 is however capable of running netbsd:

    http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc/

or OpenBSD:

    http://www.openbsd.org/sparc.html

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.                       26 The Paddocks
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