On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Dante Profeta wrote:

> Hi folks,
> here at work we have got a sparc Ultra1, and I'm thinking to install
> NetBSD in it. So I've got some questions:
> 1) Where can I found a snapshot and a miniroot file?

The latest SPARC snapshot seems to work reasonably well.

> 2) Is it enough stable to run as a DNS server?

It works reasonably well on my machine.
The current kernel only crashes occasionally 8^).

> 3) Is there an X11 server available somewere?

The latest SPARC snapshot seems to work reasonably well.

> Thanx

If you check the NetBSD/sparc64 web page you'll notice that the sparc64
port has not been officially released.  In fact, no there has not been an
official snapshot built.  Until quite recently we (O.K., fine I) didn't
have all the pieces to allow self-hosting.  It's a bit difficult to load a
kernel without a bootblock.

However, I beleive most of those issues are now resolved, so stay tuned
for an official announcement soon (for some definition of the term
`soon').

In short, with enough perseverence and a cross-compiler, you can probably
get the machine up and running.  However I would not recommend this for a
machine that will be subject to a high load or cannot afford down-time.

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