Re: [suse-sparc] reenabling a solaris install?

From: Lieven Buts (lieven@ultr.vub.ac.be)
Date: Thu Jan 17 2002 - 00:18:11 PST

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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:18:11 +0100
From: Lieven Buts <lieven@ultr.vub.ac.be>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] reenabling a solaris install?

Thomas Maisl wrote:
> Mattias Dahlberg wrote:
> > I've read a lot about NetBSD and would really like to try that instead.
> > But I can't install Solaris.
> Why do you need to install Solaris first to install NetBSD finally?
> > And it isn't just Solaris I would like to install. In the future I would like
> > to try out *BSD as well, but can I?
> NetBSD should provide the same functionallity.

According to http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html, the
SPARC64 port of NetBSD is nowhere near ready for use.
OpenBSD does appear to have a supported SPARC64 port
(http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html).

-- Lieven Buts Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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