Re: way forward for old sparc?

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Greg Troxel wrote:

> Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >
> > > I have a sparc classic mostly as a toy, and it's running 1.6.  Obviously
> > > it needs new bits, but it only has 64 MB of ram.  I am inclined to
> > > binary update it to netbsd-4 via a build on i386 Is that a reasonable
> > > thing to do?  Any advice to go to netbsd-3 instead?
> >
> > I'm running netbsd-4 on my 'classic pretty reliably. It's my firewall.
>
> Thanks.  I just realized I only have 24 MB, too.

Oh, and remember to cross-build because on the 'classic things take a
while.

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