Hello Ganimede,

Port-sparc list member Ted responding to your question.  About a year ago 
I installed NetBSD 3.0 on a Sparc Classic, grabbing the pre-built binaries 
from one of the FTP sites selectable from the installation CD.  The system 
came up fully with X, and twvm as the window manager.  For a processor of 
25MHz and 64 MB RAM I was impressed to have it all just work.

It's been a while since I popped the lid on the Classic.  Now I forget 
whether that system has four SIMM slots or six.  You may be able to 
upgrade to 96 MB RAM if there are six memory slots.  The Sparc LX stations 
have six SIMM slots.  Not sure if this is universal, but I've observed 
across Sparc Classic and LX systems that they both seem to require parity 
memory.

If you're interested in obtaining some parity SIMMs and possibly a larger 
hard drive (old school 50-pin SCSI I'm guessing?) you might try contacting 
FreeGeek -- www.freegeek.org -- you may mention my name to them, tell them 
"the Sun guy" who volunteers sent you that way.  For little more than the 
cost of shipping we could send you a couple 4 GB SCSI drives and some 
memtest86'd 16 MB parity SIMMs.

Take care Ganimede,


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On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Ganimede wrote:

> Hi,
>
> have you got experience to use X into a SPARCclassic
> with NetBSD ?
> My SPARCclassic has got 48 MB ram and 1 GB hd.
>
> Regards.
> Ganimede Dignan.
>
>
>
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