On 4/29/26 14:49, John D. Baker wrote:
On Tue, 28 Apr 2026, John D. Baker wrote:Way back in the NetBSD-7.2 era, I installed a SUNW,qfe (quad-fast-ethernet).After some faffing around, I netbooted the machine (via le0) and realized that the last time the machine was updated was during the netbsd-5 era. The faffing around was due to the "/etc/hosts" file on the machine's NFS root predating the Great Renumbering I performed on my network, so the server's name resolved incorrectly. Updating it to reality got it working properly.
I am curious about the history of "The Great Renumbering". What was that grand event? Also, any ideas about SPARC architectures like S7 sun4v? -- -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken