[luau] SparcStation IPX

R. Scott Belford sctinc at flex.com
Tue Jul 16 22:22:01 PDT 2002


On Monday we had 13 miscellaneous Sparc 2, 5, 10, and a 20 donated to the 
LTSP project.  We can install something on them that would work in a LTS 
environment, can't we?

scott



On Tuesday 16 July 2002 22:02, you wrote:
> Aloha,
>
> FreeBSD doesn't support 32-bit sparc hardware (i.e. sun4c and sun4m) they
> have a beta release that support 64-bit sparc architecture (sun4u).
>
> NetBSD runs on everything (think I could install NetBSD in my toaster) and
> OpenBSD supports sun4c, sun4m, and sun4u.
>
> The IPX is a sun4c architecture.
>
> Sparc5, 10, and 20 are sun4m architecture.
>
> Sun Ultras, Netra, and all their new stuff fall into the sun4u.
>
> Dusty
>
> > On Tuesday 16 July 2002 09:02 pm, MonMotha wrote:
> > BTW Solaris 8 doen't support IPXs, I have one myself and Solaris 7 was
> > the  best I could do but it runs suuuuupppeeeeerrrrr
> > sssssllllloooooowwwwww....... I recommend using NetBSD or FreeBSD .
> > but I truly recommend NetBSD, it runs smooth and doesn't take a lot of
> > resources
> > anyways give'um a try, you might like something different.
> >
> > Julio
>
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