Hardware - Sun workstation Ultra 20 and others

[Royce Williams]

Ivan Voras wrote, on 4/11/2008 2:57 AM:
> Does anyone have experience with running Sun's Opteron-based
> workstation, Ultra 20, 25, 40? Both with FreeBSD and other systems
> (Linux)? Are they stable, all the drivers are present, etc?

I haven't, but this fellow appears to have tried 6.1-R:

http://jc.ngo.org.uk/blog/2006/09/02/day-55-of-60-installing-freebsd-on-a-sun-ultra-40/


Here's his dmesg:

http://jc.ngo.org.uk/~nik/dmesg.boot


Apparently, legacy USB support should be disabled in the BIOS for the
including keyboard to work properly.

Royce


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