Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:48:27 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Administrator <administrator@administrat0r.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An old sparc 50mhz 64bit workstation - can it run *bsd? Message-ID: <20020926021827.GB10532@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <000d01c26500$e3a06420$6400a8c0@windows> References: <000d01c26500$e3a06420$6400a8c0@windows>
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On Wednesday, 25 September 2002 at 22:03:20 -0400, Administrator wrote: > I do believe there is a port of NetBSD for sparc cpu's, but does anyone > know if it will run on open or freebsd? NetBSD doesn't run on OpenBSD or FreeBSD. OpenBSD does run on SPARC. > With preference for freebsd obviously, though I believe it's the one > least likely to take to the sparc processor. Correct. > I can get a hold of 4-5 of them hopefully from my university, and > I'd love to mess around with them. You don't say which model it is. That's crucial to the answer. But I didn't know there were any 64 bit machines that slow; I'd think that a machine of that clock speed would be something like a SPARCstation 2, which is a 32 bit machine and won't run FreeBSD. > O/T: Would any of you know what would be hiding inside a Sun > sparc-server 670 MP? (obviously my university is upgrading their > solaris computer lab ;-) ) No, but google is your friend. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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