[sclug] Sun SPARC help

Matt matt at bodgit-n-scarper.com
Sat Nov 20 23:18:34 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 13:39, Hamlesh Motah wrote:
> If you have any luck with this, would anyone mind me borrowing it
> afterwards?
> 
> I've inherited 2 SunSparc Classics and would love to get FreeBSD or
> OpenBSD going on them.  They'd make lovely backup mail and dns servers
> :)

You'll have little chance of FreeBSD working on them. ISTR it only
supports UltraSparcs (sparc64) and even then only the PCI derivatives.

You missed out the one BSD that's probably the best supported on 32-bit
Sparc hardware; NetBSD :-)

Matt



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