On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> On Monday, 27 September 2004 at 11:05:54 -0700, Sean McKay wrote:
>> Just an informal poll here...I just setup NetBSD 1.6.2 on my ss20 and
>> am having fun setting it up. I'm curious what others are using it for
>> on this hardware...I've got 320MB of RAM and and decent HD -- it seems
>> a bit slow though. I'm going to put some web pages up on it and see
>> what kind of performance I can pull out of it...
>
> I've got a whole pile of old SPARCs (if somebody round here wants one,
> let me know).  I'm currently running OpenBSD on a SPARCstation 5 as
> part of the Samba build farm (http://build.samba.org/, system flame).
>
> I have a SPARCstation 20 with 96 MB of memory on which I intend to do
> something similar for NetBSD.  I installed a relatively recent NetBDS
> ISO (forget which one) and then tried to upgrade to 1.6.2.  It doesn't
> finish booting:
>
>  Booting netbsd
>  3129244+98076+329904 [196000Illegal Instruction
>
> I've been told that this is because of changes in the boot blocks;
> before I go to more trouble than I really want to, can anybody
> confirm?

It's hopeless and you should give me the machine.

My SPARCclassic is my firewall/DNS. My SS5 build packages for the
'classic. I just wish ssh was quicker on the SPARCs.

-- 
Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd@twofifty.com
BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte