Subject: Re: SPARCbook 2?
To: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
From: Michael C. Ibarra <ibarra@hawk.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/13/1999 19:49:19
> 
> 	If it has a floppy, download the floppy image from the latest
> 	snapshot (ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc/...) and try
> 	booting it. You dont have to run any of the install programs
> 	so your disks should be safe if you decide not to go ahead :)
> 
> 		David/absolute
> 
>  -=-  "I know its not the right thing, and I know its not the good thing"  -=-
> 
> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Jay Maynard wrote:
> 
> > The SPARCbook 2 isn't listed as one of the supported platforms. Anyone have
> > any experience at all with these and NetBSD? I'd love to jettison SunOS
> > 4.0.3...

I've blasted one of those not too long ago, SunOS 4.1.4, however it
was exactly the same architecture as an IPX. I even installed a
Weitek chip in there as well.

-mike