From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 26 1:29:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DED4150BB for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 01:29:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA07003; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 19:59:24 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id TAA46579; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 19:59:23 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990326195923.Q425@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 19:59:23 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr, questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Sun386i ? References: <36FB4E8E.92E8C1CC@telspace.alcatel.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <36FB4E8E.92E8C1CC@telspace.alcatel.fr>; from HERBELOT Thierry on Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 10:08:30AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message