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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!dcs.ed.ac.uk!amber.epcc.ed.ac.uk!st From: st@amber.epcc.ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford) Subject: Re: netbsd on sun 3/xx Message-ID: <DCy3xy.LKt@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Sender: cnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin) Organization: Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh, UK. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <3vo8mj$h9f@pioneer.uspto.gov> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 14:51:33 GMT Lines: 17 Dirk Wright (wright@uspto.gov) wrote: : After reading the freebsd/netbsd faq and browsing the web site for : netbsd.org, I need more info on running netbsd on a sun 3/60 and 3/80. I may : be inheriting one of these machines in the fall, so I need an os. The : license for the sunos is not transferable, so I can't get one legally : without buying from sun. I'm a poor boy, so buying from sun is out of the : question. Will standard release 1.0 run? or, will I have to use an interiem : release? Any help is appreciated. Last I heard, NetBSD/sun3 ran on a 3/60. The 3/80 (Sun 3x series) are a different ballgame and aren't supported yet AFAIK. I think a lot of things have happened to the /sun3 port since 1.0, I would try -current. -- Scott Telford, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, <s.telford@ed.ac.uk> University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Rd, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK.(+44 131 650 5978) -"Is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" "What's the difference?" (Snow Crash)-