[sclug] Sun SPARC help

[Hamlesh Motah]

Ah yes,

Forgot about that :)  I'll have to dig my netbsd install out, just need
a monitor adapter and keyb/mouse.  Going to try and see if I can use the
Sparc lab on campus at some stage.

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-----Original Message-----
From: sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk [mailto:sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk] On
Behalf Of Matt
Sent: 20 November 2004 23:17
To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
Subject: RE: [sclug] Sun SPARC help


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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