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On Monday, 27 September 2004 at 19:19:16 -0700, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> 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.

Not a problem.  As I said, I have some to give away.  Just come by and
pick them up :-)

Greg
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