Sparcbook 3GX

[Michael-John Turner]

On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 05:12:03AM +0000, drpatrick at netzero.com wrote:
> I'm trying to find out if FreeBSD 5.2 will support the sparcbook
> 3gx laptop. I bought the FreeBSD 5.2 and it had i386 written on it
> and I wanted to know if this version is for only x86 architecture.
> Please advise on what steps I need to take to obtain the FreeBSD OS
> for my sparcbook 3gx. Thanks for taking the time to read this
> email.

FreeBSD only supports 64-bit SPARC machines (sun4u architecture). For the
3GX, your best best is going to be NetBSD, which supports it pretty well.
See http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc/ for more information.

-mj
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