Subject: Re: is the sparc server 2 supported?
To: None <yblock@asu.edu>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/16/2000 14:51:26
On June 16, yblock@asu.edu wrote:
> I have the chance to get an Sparcserve 2 and I was wondering if I can run
> NetBSD on it. I know that NetBSD runs on the Sparcstation 2. I was thinking
> to netboot from my other box and play mp3 on it.
A SPARCserver-2 is nothing more than a SPARCstation-2 with no
framebuffer and keyboard. It will run NetBSD/sparc just fine.
You may find, however, that it might not be the best box to do mp3
decoding on. Its audio subsystem is single-channel, 8-bit, 8KHz.
-Dave McGuire