Hi again people. Thanks as always for quick and useful responses. I asked:
> I'm looking into running 4.4BSD on some of our suns, possibly as an
> alternative to moving to Solaris. I remember hearing some time ago that
> there was a version which had been ported to Suns, but on looking around
> haven't found much.
>
> Does anyone know where such a thing can be found, or have any info about it?
> Or better, is anyone running it?
Winning entries were from Mr T Crummey (DIJ) <tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk>, who
gave me instructions on how to get it going and where the home site for
the distribution was, and John Valdes <valdes@geosun.uchicago.edu> who
gave me a list of sites where it could be obtained. I won't post these
as they are longish. If anyone wants them let me know, and I'll send them
over.
In brief, NetBSD (which is the AT&T unencumbered version of 4.4BSD) is
available in binary form for Sparc on the following machines: SS 1, 1+, 2, IPC,
IPX, SLC, and ELC - the sun4c machines. It is not currently running on 4m
machines or server type machines. Binaries are available from
sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu:pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc, and many other places.
I also found out from "James W. Adams" <jwa2n@galen.med.virginia.edu>
that there are a number of mailing lists for people interested in NetBSD.
To susbscribe, send mail to majordomo@NetBSD.ORG, using standard Majordomo
commands. To find out about the commands, send mail with "help" in the body.
Relevant lists available are:
current Announcements regarding NetBSD-current
current-users General discussion regarding NetBSD-current
netbsd-bugs Bug reports
netbsd-help Questions and answers
netbsd-ports
netbsd-users General discussion
port-sparc Technical discussion regarding NetBSD/sparc
port-sun3 Technical discussion regarding NetBSD/sun3
portable-ppp Technical discussion regarding user-space PPP
source-changes Source tree changes
tech-install Technical discussion regarding installation tools
tech-kern Technical discussion regarding all aspects of the kernel
tech-misc Technical discussion not appropriate for the other tech-*
tech-net Technical discussion regarding networking software
tech-ports Technical discussion regarding all ports
tech-userlevel Technical discussion regarding user-level programs
Thanks to the following people for replying:
Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
Dan Stromberg - OAC-CSG <strombrg@hydra.acs.uci.edu>
Dave Fetrow <fetrow@biostat.washington.edu>
Mr T Crummey (DIJ) <tom@sees.bangor.ac.uk>
Mike Blandford <mikey@truman.lanl.gov>
Brian Reynolds <bfr@panix.com>
Gary Blumenstein <garyb@gcm.com>
John Valdes <valdes@geosun.uchicago.edu>
wrhea@spd.dsccc.com (William Rhea)
Tom Orban <orban@advtech.uswest.com>
don@mars.dgrc.doc.ca (Donald McLachlan)
blymn@awadi.com.AU (Brett Lymn)
-Matthew
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