Subject: Re: Tadpole SparcBook and NetBSD
To: None <Joseph@knucklehead.gte.net, port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Christopher E Maylor <cmay@knucklehead.gte.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/07/1998 10:46:25
Thus spake Joseph Red (jred@worldnet.att.net):

On a similar, yet different vein,

where does one get one's hands on a boot floppy?

I have an SS2, that I would like to install clean rather than using
the Solaris/SunOS created slice information.  As such, I need a boot
floppy for the SS2  (most preferably a 1.3.2 version).

Cheers!

> 
> I don't know for sure how well it will run, but you can successfully boot
> the Tadpole using the NetBSD boot floppy.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> ----------
> > From: Dan Poler <dpoler@mediaone.net>
> > To: port-sparc@netbsd.org
> > Subject: Tadpole SparcBook and NetBSD
> > Date: Saturday, October 03, 1998 12:45 PM
> > 
> > Well, after the relative ease of getting NetBSD/sparc up and running on
> the
> > Voyager, I'm up for a new challenge. :) 
> > 
> > Does anyone know if NetBSD will run on Tadpole Sparcbooks? I will soon be
> the
> > proud owner of a 3GX (Sparc 5/110 equivelant) and I'd like to try. As
> soon as I
> > have it in my hands I'll give it a whirl and see how it goes.
> > 
> > Any info appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks!

-- 
Chris Maylor
cmay@knucklehead.gte.net

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