On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:08:03PM -0500, Bill Meahan wrote:
> I have a nice little SS20 sitting around doing nothing useful that I'd

wrong list, for a SS20 you want port-sparc. port-sparc64 is for
ultrasparc-based machines

> like to try out NetBSD SMP on. Dual SM81's, full load of RAM, two
> Seagate
> Cheetah 2.5G disks. And a fast DSL connection to the 'net.
> 
> Right now the box is loaded with Solaris 9 (for evaluation purposes
> only!!!). What is the quickest and easiest way to transition the box?
> The obvious method is to install 1.6, download lots of source, rebuild
> the kernel as an MP kernel, yada, yada, yada. After (too many) years of
> systems work, I'm getting a bit lazy.
> 
> Is there an easier/quicker way?

There are daily builds (well, every 2 days really, there's too much to
do for one day :) of current available:
ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/current/
pick the more recent directory with sparc binaries. There may even be
a prebuild GENERIC.MP kernel.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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