sparc station 5

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 03:53:53PM -0700, Paredes Sánchez Martín A. wrote:
> Can I install Free BSD in a Sparc Station 5?

Unlikely: the FreeBSD Sparc port requires a "sun4u" 64bit UltraSparc
III processor.  The SS5 uses a 'sun4m' 32bit MicroSparc II processor.

    http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/hardware-sparc64.html

The Sparc Station 5 is however capable of running netbsd:

    http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc/

or OpenBSD:

    http://www.openbsd.org/sparc.html

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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