Subject: Re: Sun4? Not listed.
To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@pci.on.ca>
From: David Brownlee <D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/29/1995 20:13:47
You should be able to get -current up on a sun4/260. (You might need
the odd patch from someone currently in a cave, but -current _should_
work straight off (AFAIK) :).
I have a -current system on a 4/300 as of 14th august all ok
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On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, David Gilbert wrote:
> After struggling all night with SunOS 4.1.4, I'm willing to
> consider installing NetBSD. I have a Sun4/260 with 16 meg of RAM and
> 600 meg of disk. I am not too particularly interested in active
> development, but am interested in new features, and keeping up with
> the Joneses.
>
> The WWW site lists 1.0 as available for the Sun3 and the
> Sun4[cm] ... but not the Sun4 (plain). (SunOS certainly makes this
> distinction with their #!!#%&^!*%! install.) It mentioned that the
> current version was much more likely to be ported to any particular
> architechure.
>
> I'd like to know what my options are. The machine is
> currently running SunOS 4.1.1 (ish) and has a cartridge drive along
> with it's two 300 meg drives.
>
> Dave.
>
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