November 21, 2008
Pizza box running NetBSD
It’s a long time since I wanted to run something on the SUN SparcStations I got for Púlsar (unofficial site). Debian is not longer supported on sparc32 due to kernel upstream lack of interest. BSD was the choice then. After a few tries with OpenBSD, we were not able to network boot (diskless setup) the boxes so this morning I gave a try with NetBSD which gave a more verbose output on the start up boot. I’ll try to document all the steps to reproduce and maintain this on the wiki.
spark# uname -a
NetBSD spark 4.0.1 NetBSD 4.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Wed Oct 8 01:06:02 PDT 2008 builds@wb28:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4-0-1-RELEASE/sparc/200810080053Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4-0-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC sparc
Slow but steady, you are getting sucked by the BSD world xD
Comment by bashflyng — November 21, 2008 @ 10:31 pm