Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:36:24 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca> Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any chance of running FreeBSD on a Sun Ultra 1? Message-ID: <20040122093437.V53499@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: <400EA00C.7010900@gldis.ca> References: <20040121141118.GC2748@iib.unsam.edu.ar> <400EA00C.7010900@gldis.ca>
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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Jeremy Faulkner wrote: JF>Fernan Aguero wrote: JF>> Hi! JF>> JF>> I am a FreeBSD user, but my experience is limited to i386 JF>> hardaware. JF>> JF>> Recently, our lab received an old Ultra 1 from Sun. It is JF>> currently running Solaris 8, but I'd like to investigate the JF>> possibility of running FreeBSD (or perhaps some other OS). JF>> JF>> It seems that the Ultra 1 is unsupported, but does that mean JF>> that it will not boot/run FreeBSD? Or just that no work is JF>> being done from the sparc@ project? JF>> JF>> If it's possible to netboot it, I can set up some shared NFS JF>> partitions on my i386 machine to hold what's necessary ... JF> JF>IIRC, the on board network and scsi cards are not supported (don't have JF>functional drivers yet). It depends on whether this is an Ultra with a green or a red 1 on the front. The red one's network card are supported (the hme). I'm just trying to get mine to netboot. While it boots a couple of programs dump core (ls for example), but this may be just a pilot error. harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de, harti@freebsd.org
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