[rescue] *BSD on Sparc?

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Sun Aug 4 10:33:14 CDT 2002


[ On Saturday, August 3, 2002 at 16:12:23 (-0700), vraptor at employees.org wrote: ]
> Subject: [rescue] *BSD on Sparc?
>
> I was wondering if anyone had any experience with any of the
> *BSDs on Sparc?  I'm interested in learning vinum, and would
> rather not build out another x86 box just for that purpose.
> I'd prefer FreeBSD, as that's what I know best, but any *BSD
> is cool by me (Linux hurts my brain).
> 
> Is it doable on an SS20?

NetBSD's RAIDframe works A-OK on sparc, and is one hell of a lot more
robust than vinum (not to mention easier to understand and work with)
(though I must say I've only used vinum on i386).

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