Sparcbook 3GX

[Gallagher, James]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: drpatrick at netzero.com [mailto:drpatrick at netzero.com] 
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 13:12 PM
> To: freebsd-sparc at freebsd.org
> Subject: Sparcbook 3GX
> 
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> 
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>   To whom this may concern,
>       I'm trying to find out if FreeBSD 5.2 will support the 
> sparcbook 3gx laptop. I bought the FreeBSD 5.2 and it had 
> i386 written on it and I wanted to know if this version is 
> for only x86 architecture. Please advise on what steps I need 
> to take to obtain the FreeBSD OS for my sparcbook 3gx. Thanks 
> for taking the time to read this email.
> 
> D. Patrick.
> 

I think you're out of luck, have a look at
http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html for the supported hardware with
sparc64. You might have better luck trying NetBSD on it? I have a
SparcStation 20 running NetBSD 2.0 quite successfully as it wasn't able to
use FreeBSD unfortunately.

James