At Fri, 2 Apr 2010 03:18:18 +0100, Kelly Harding
<kelly.harding%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
Subject: NetBSD port-sparc on SparcStation Voyager
>
> Does anyone have any experience of running port-sparc on a Voyager?
A friend of mine has a Voyager as a spare terminal up at his cottage and
I think it runs NetBSD-1.5, or maybe I finally did upgraded it to 1.6.2,
though I can't remember. Ah, yes, I do have a COTTAGE config in my
netbsd-1-6 branch. I can send it to you if you'd like, but you probably
should run NetBSD-5 of course.
> Unfortuately it seems to only have 16mb (at least I think it does),
> will NetBSD work in this amount?
It should do, though you might want to build a trim kernel.
> The HDD is also small at 800Mb, but for a simple X terminal with most
> stuff running on another machine on the network it should be enough?
I think 800MB should be enough for the base OS, including X11 -- don't
install the comp.tgz set if you want to save lots of space (and assuming
the base X11 is all you need to run locally, or you can get whatever
else you want to cross-compile, eg. by dropping it into the source tree,
writing the necessary Makefiles, and using build.sh to build it).
> Would a version of pre-Solaris be a better bet? which version would work if
> so?
I don't think you'd really want to run SunOS-4 (aka Solaris-1.x) on it
any more, and I doubt SunOS-5 (aka Solaris 2.x) or newer would perform
very well on it, if indeed it would even run in that little memory,
though I may be mistaken.
--
Greg A. Woods
Planix, Inc.
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