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From: bad@ora.de (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: NetBSD for Sun 4m?
Message-ID: <Du2LHs.Loz@ora.de>
Organization: O'Reilly/International Thomson Verlag
References: <4rinj9$c5h@bull.hkstar.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 12:32:15 GMT
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In <4rinj9$c5h@bull.hkstar.net> clc@b1.hkstar.com (Chu Chiu Leung) writes:

>I'm interested in running NetBSD/Sparc on a Sparc-10 (4m),
>is it possible to have NetBSD/Sparc 1.1 loaded and compiling
>the -current source tree on the SS10?

AFAIK, no.

>Or, do I need to get a 4c machines to load the NetBSD-1.1 and
>-current source there and compile to target on 4m?

That would be possible.

What you really want to do is pick-up a set of -current binary tarballs and
install them.  That saves you the upgrade from 1.1 to current, which is a
bit convoluted.
-- 
Christoph Badura
O'Reilly/International Thomson Verlag