gabriel rosenkoetter on Wed, 8 Jan 2003 19:12:04 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] OT Sparc


On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 08:21:33PM +0000, Michael Lazin wrote:
> There has been a lot of discussion on this list about sparc so I thought 
> I'd pose this question.  Can you install Solaris 9 on an old 50mhz sparc LX 
> clone with 64 megs of ram and a 4 gig hard drive?

You should be able to, though I haven't tried. You certainly won't
be able to do the 64-bit installation (that's not a 64-bit chip).

You're *very* likely to get better performance out of Linux or (who
saw this one coming?) NetBSD, though.

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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