On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 11:22:43AM +1030, Phil Hutton wrote:
> Hi...
> 
> I've been looking for a free Unix to run on my SPARCserver 4/470.  I looked
> at Linux, but apparently the SPARC port won't boot on a 4/4xx yet.  The
> SPARC Linux guys suggested that NetBSD should work.
> 
> - Will NetBSD run on a 4/4xx? (I notice the FAQ doesn't mention it)

Neither does the sparc www page.

> - Is it easy to install, given that I don't have any other SPARCs that I
>   could use to compile a kernel?

Well, if it's supported it should work out of the box. If it's not you should
be able to find some help here. I'd say just try it out and see what happens.
If you have another machine you can netboot your sparc from it's certainly
the best way.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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