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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can NetBSD/Sparc and 4.4Lite coexist?
Date: 13 Jun 1995 22:06:19 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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abrown@course1.harvard.edu (Aaron Brown) wrote:
] Terry Lambert (terry@cs.weber.edu) wrote:
] : abrown@fas.harvard.edu (Aaron Brown) wrote:
] : ]
] : ] Is it possible to get NetBSD/Sparc and the Sparc version of 4.4BSD-Lite
] : ] to coexist on one (Sparc 1 or 2) machine? I'd like to be able to boot
] : ] back and forth between the two OS's. Would this require 2 hard drives?
]
] : BSD4.4-Lite is not bootable.
]
] ?? Well, I have a Sparc that is running 4.4BSD...perhaps it is the heavy
] version, but I was told it was Lite. uname says "4.4BSD". So can I get
] 4.4BSD-Heavy and NetBSD to coexist?
I'm not really the guy to ask about this one; I know that NetBSD
and SunOS can coexist, and that NetBSD can mount SunOS file systems,
which have a different disklabel layout than standard BSD.
From that, I'd have to say that some file system hacking might be
necessary. On the other hand, if you have the 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM
from CSRG/Usenix/O'Reilly, then the new code you'd have to write
would probably be minimal.
If by "coexist" you only mean seperate drives on the same machine,
then yeah, they can.
Personally, if it were me, I know that NetBSD/SPARC will run SunOS
binaries, a big plus in my book. I might not run 4.4BSD without
the NetBSD changes simply because of that.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.