Ultra 2....no?

John-Mark Gurney gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu
Sat Sep 4 18:33:35 PDT 2004


Bob Ababurko wrote this message on Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 21:27 -0400:
>   I am not sure if I am reading it correct, but if I have an Ultra 2 and 
> wish to use FreeBSD, I am pretty much SOL, unless I want to netboot?  I am 
> thinking of netbooting as what a diskless client would do.  If this is 
> indeed correct, that is unfortunate, because I am going to have to go with 
> OpenBSD, as I am tired of Solaris where everything is twice as difficult as 
> it needs to be.  Any insight inot this would be greatly appreciated.

The scsi controller on the Ultra2 should now be supported.  It isn't
supported in a -RELEASE yet, but will be in the upcoming 5.3-R..  There
is currently 5.3-BETA2 available if you don't want to install from
source...

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