Naresh Ganta Reddy on Thu, 9 Jan 2003 00:18:06 -0500


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Re: Re: [PLUG] OT Sparc


Or even free BSD.


-----Original Message-----
From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 19:11:33 -0500
Subject: 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.

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net




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