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Date:      Fri, 26 Mar 1999 19:59:23 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr, questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on a Sun386i ?
Message-ID:  <19990326195923.Q425@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <36FB4E8E.92E8C1CC@telspace.alcatel.fr>; from HERBELOT Thierry on Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 10:08:30AM %2B0100
References:  <36FB4E8E.92E8C1CC@telspace.alcatel.fr>

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On Friday, 26 March 1999 at 10:08:30 +0100, HERBELOT Thierry wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an opportunity to fetch an ancient Sun386i (don't know in which
> state it is)
>
> Is there any chance FreeBSD might run on this machine ? (if I remember,
> the Sun386i is not entirely PC-Compatible).

It doesn't run out of the box.  You could do it, but it would involve
a *lot* of work (like writing low-level hardware support code).  You
probably don't want to do that.  You'll probably find that NetBSD or
OpenBSD run on it.

Greg
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