Subject: Re: NetBSD and Axil 245
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E4r_Thoren?= <t98pth@student.hk-r.se>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/30/2000 21:38:12
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 11:03:27AM +0200, Pär Thoren wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
> Anyone successfully installed netbsd on a old axil 245?
> It is suppose to be a "clone" of sparcstation 5..

Does stock SunOS or Solaris run on it ? then NetBSD is likely to run too.

> 
> I got a bunch of those and I´m looking for a OS to install on them (I
> don´t like SunOS ;)
> 
> Any suggestion on HOW to install netbsd on them? I have only used FreeBSD
> on i386 until now.
> Maybe from a nfs/ftp install server hmmm...

If you can setup a network boot server the best way is certainly to netboot,
especially if you have a lot of machines to install.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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