sun box

[Jon Adams]

Scott W wrote:

> Hexren wrote:
>
>> KC> Hi there
>>
>> KC> Two very simple questions, can I run FreeBSD on a Sun box and is 
>> it possible to run BSD on VMware
>>
http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html there are a long list of 
supported hardware using the Sun Sparc chip, essentially everything 
except stuff running the newer Sparc III chips and the old Ultra 1's. 
There are a couple of others that you would need to use tftp to boot.... 
but its all on the webpage.

    * Blade 100
    * Blade 150
    * Enterprise 220R
    * Enterprise 250
    * Enterprise 420R
    * Enterprise 450
    * Fire V100
    * Fire V120
    * Netra™ T1 105
    * Netra T1 AC200/DC200
    * Netra t 1100
    * Netra t 1120
    * Netra t 1125
    * Netra t 1400/1405
    * Netra 120
    * Netra X1
    * SPARCEngine® Ultra Axi
    * SPARCEngine Ultra AXmp
    * Ultra™ 5
    * Ultra 10
    * Ultra 30
    * Ultra 60
    * Ultra 80


>> KC> Kim
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>>
>> I dunno about the SunBox but VMware is possible.
>> Currently I run FreeBSD 4.10 in a VMware Workstation Version 4.0.5.
>> The machine hosting the Virtual Machine is running Windows XP. Though
>> I must admit I wasn't able to bring a FreeBSD Version greater than
>> 4.10 to work in the VM.(I only tried 5.2.1)
>>
>> Hexren
>
>
> I've had 5-CURRENT (around 5.1.X at the time) running without issues 
> under VMWare. There are one or two configuration gotchas which can be 
> found on the VMWare support forum site or googled....adding back in a 
> 'FreeBSD' token basically for the OS type...which is virtually the 
> same as the existing Linux OS config...
>
> Scott
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