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Date:      Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:32:24 -0500
From:      Bob Bomar <bob@fxp.org>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sun box
Message-ID:  <546382A2-2907-11D9-A5F2-000A95CEE8B4@fxp.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041028171610.3894.qmail@web88011.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
References:  <20041028171610.3894.qmail@web88011.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

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On Oct 28, 2004, at 12:16 PM, Kimberley Chrona wrote:

> Hi there
>
> Two very simple questions, can I run FreeBSD on a Sun box and is it  
> possible to run BSD on VMware
>


1. Yes, It will run on UltraSPARC 1's (Ultra 1/2) And UltraSPARC 2  
Processors.
I have seen it run on a E250 Dual Proc machine.  I was never able to get
X running, but the base OS runs just fine.  I was running  
Apache/Postfix/MySQL
on an Ultra 5 and others just fine.

See  
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/hardware-sparc64.html#SUPPORT- 
SYS

2. Yes.

- --
Bob Bomar
bob@bomar.us
http://bob.bomar.us
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