sparc64 on donovan

Peter Larkowski peter at larkowski.net
Mon Mar 22 12:55:25 PST 2004


On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, a clever sheep wrote:

> sorry to reply to a reply but i've lost the original message.
>
> according to the spec page it says it's using an ultra axe mainboard
> with a 300mhz cpu on it.  i have one of those that i got from ebay some
> time ago and it was running some version of 5 with a working vinum for
> quite a while.  i don't recall any difficulties installing and using it,
> however i did perform a network install rather than trying to use local
> media.
>
I run a post 5.2.1-current on an Ultra AXe board as well.  It works just
fine when doing an ftp install of 5.2 (boot from cd, but choose ftp as
install media), but it always crashed during a cd install.  Also, 5.1
would never install at all for me, but 5.0 worked ok.

-p



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