On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:36:06AM -0300, Martin A. Marques wrote:
> I'm thinking about installing NetBSD in a Ultra5 (and maybe later in a 
> ultra10).
> What I want to know (and because I don't know much about BSD) is how the 
> applications are packaged (pkg?), and if they are all built with a 64 bit 
> compiler.

NetBSD/sparc64 is 64bit native.
You have binary packages available, which you can install with pkg_add.
You can also fetch pkgsrc to install from sources. It's just a matter of
typing 'make install' at the rigth place.

> Which compiler comes with the distro? Can I use gcc? Does it come with XFree 
> and/or KDE?

Compiler is gcc.
But unfortunably there's no X server available for NetBSD/sparc64 yet.
I think you can install KDE and use it remotely, though.

> And to finish, where can I get iso images of net-bsd to burn (and who much 
> are them)?

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/iso/ (and mirrors).
I'm not sure there's one for sparc64.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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