Philip Jensen wrote:
> Thought members of this mailing list would like to hear a success story 
> installing NetBSD onto a Sun 420R.
> 
> I got the ISO image of the SPARC64 port for NetBSD 2.0_RC1 from 
> Karsten's unofficial site.
> 
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> 
> My next task is to compile a Multi-Processor kernel (there wasn't one 
> available on the ISO I downloaded, there doesn't seem to be one at the 
> releng.netbsd.org site either), and see if it spins up all the CPU's.
> 
> It's so nice to install an OS and not have to reompile a kernel just to 
> get things like SCSI and network cards working.  We use Debian GNU/Linux 
> on most of production gear (including SPARCs), with the odd NetBSD 
> machine courtesy of yours truly.  Fortunately NetBSD is installed on our 
> core infrastructure routers.

Sounds good, however I wouldn't use sparc64 port on production servers. 
I tried to get the recent NetBSD-2.x going on my Ultra10, but whenever I 
put excess load on it (i.e. forking loads of processes, building large 
software packages, starting remote xclients, etc) the kernel panics. 
NetBSD-2.x is a great OS, but it seems there needs to be some work done 
to make it rock solid. So as you can guess my Ultra10 is running 
Solaris, which lacks a lot of things I used to have in NetBSD, but 
Solaris on UltraSparc is very stable.