Re: T2000 Sparc FreeBSD8.2 installation failed
On 01/26/2012 02:05 PM, Anonymous wrote: NetBSD Not recommended, sorry to say Why? Fritz Wuehler fr...@spamexpire-201201.rodent.frell.theremailer.net responded: Net has support for less sparc64 platforms than OpenBSD or FreeBSD and NetBSD reliability has gone downhill. I am sad to say it but I think Net's best days are behind us. I hope I have to eat my words some day. It used to be my favorite OS and pkgsrc is fantastic. NetBSD supports many different platforms, maybe it's the way they count that makes it look like more than FreeBSD and Linux? I have great problems with NetBSD on new Intel Sandy Bridge computer. It was FreeBSD 9.0_BETA1 that caused me to suspend the struggle with NetBSD. NetBSD-HEAD (5.99.xx to become 6.0) wouldn't even boot from hard-drive installation, would boot partway but hang. Installation CD would boot maybe half the time. NetBSD 5.1_STABLE would boot, but always went into immediate hard reboot when I tried to go to X. On old computer, I have weird screenblanking problems with both NetBSD 5.1_STABLE and HEAD; 4.0.1 was somewhat better. On new computer, apparently the only viable open-source OSes are FreeBSD and Linux. OpenBSD seems too backward and problematic, I never installed that. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: T2000 Sparc FreeBSD8.2 installation failed
At this stage, your options appear to be: illumos/OpenIndiana Not being developed on SPARC Linux, AFAIK Gentoo, Funtoo, Debian are the only supporting distros and you will need to check if sun4v and your machine are supported NetBSD Not recommended, sorry to say or OpenBSD. Highly recommended. Note that I've not tried any of these. OpenBSD seems to work brilliantly on my sun4u machines, not sure how much of the sun4v are supported but you can ask on the sparc64 list openbsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: T2000 Sparc FreeBSD8.2 installation failed
On 01/26/2012 02:05 PM, Anonymous wrote: NetBSD Not recommended, sorry to say Why? -- Rares Aioanei ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: T2000 Sparc FreeBSD8.2 installation failed
You wrote: On 01/26/2012 02:05 PM, Anonymous wrote: NetBSD Not recommended, sorry to say Why? Net has support for less sparc64 platforms than OpenBSD or FreeBSD and NetBSD reliability has gone downhill. I am sad to say it but I think Net's best days are behind us. I hope I have to eat my words some day. It used to be my favorite OS and pkgsrc is fantastic. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
