Thanks all for the response...

I was able to install NetBSD successfully :-) .

Ice.


-----Original Message-----
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
To: Ijsbrand Wijnands <iwijnand@cisco.com>
Cc: port-sparc@netbsd.org <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
Date: Monday, October 05, 1998 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: Difference sun3x and sparc port


>> I am in the process of installing NETBSD on a sparc classic.  I see
>> there are 2 distributions, a sun3x and a sparc.  Which of the 2
>> should I take?
>
>The sparc, because you have a SPARC, not a Sun-3-anything.  (The sun3x
>distribution is for the sun3x machines, some of the last of the
>680x0-based Suns.  The best known is probably the -3/80, which is
>visually very similar to a SPARCStation 1 or 1+ - approximately the
>same box, in particular.)
>
>> Maybe an other stupid questions, but what is the difference between
>> OpenBSD and NetBSD?
>
>Most briefly, a few letters in the name, a lot of politics, and a while
>(a year? two? I forget) of codebase divergence.
>
> der Mouse
>
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