[SPARCbook] RE: [SunRescue] NetBSD 1.5 CDROM

[Michael M Delaney]

I have tried the .iso for sparc (70mb file), for 1.5 alpha or beta, it was
the newest release as off ~ 11/20 or 22.  It did have some problems with
the framebuffer, and X would lock up if i tried to quit, but seemed to
work ok.  Unfortunatly, I had a partition die from unknown causes, and the
cd drive I have at school isnt sun bootable (took me a long time to
rembember that I used one at home over break to get it to install, I kept
thinking "This worked before....This worked before..."  ;) 
As of now, I finally got a copy of Solaris 2.6, I'm going to try to get
that working (borrowed a working cd drive too), but if you dont want to
spend the cash, or cant fine someone who will just give it to you, netbsd
seems to be a better choice then linux, at least from my expearance.

Mike

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> I was going through my old email, came across this note, and something
> struck me - this is the release that supports the Tadpole SPARCbook quite
> well (framebuffer support - unaccellerated, etc.).
> 
> After noodling around, I found that *all* the platforms have bootable
> images, including SPARC/SPARC64, available as .iso images to be burned and
> booted from.
> 
> Has antone on this list tried this on their SPARCbook yet? I haven't gotten
> around to trying this on one of my SPARCbooks yet...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ken
> 
> ------Original Message------
> From: William Barnett-Lewis <wlewis at mailbag.com>
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Sent: January 17, 2001 1:47:14 PM GMT
> Subject: [SunRescue] NetBSD 1.5 CDROM
> 
> 
> Just thought I'd mention, that Wasabi Systems www.wasabisystems.com is now
> selling a 2 cd set with all the all the main binary releases of NetBSD 1.5
> on it. The main reason I find this so cool is that unlike the other places
> you can get it, the CDROM is Sparc bootable. Just popping in the CD and
> typing "boot cdrom" at the OK prompt is a lot easier than the older ways.
> Much easier for a BSD newby like me to deal with.
> 
> I have no connection to the company, just thought others here might want to
> try it. I know that it and OLVWM make a much faster system for my IPX than
> Solaris 7 does.
> 
> William
> 
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