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<p>Dotplus: /* Sun keyboard and mouse? Throw them away! */</p> <hr /> <div>This is a stub article for different things to be aware of when installing or using FreeBSD on Sparc hardware.<br /> <br /> ==Servers only, thanks.==<br /> FreeBSD + Sparc = No GUI. See [http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/hardware-sparc64.html#AEN273 this link] w/r/t 5.0; later versions of FreeBSD documentation do not mention it at all.<br /> <br /> ==Sun keyboard and mouse? Throw them away!==<br /> Toss 'em because you can't use 'em. Serial console installation only, please. See [[Sparc_-_Terminal_Emulation]]&lt;br /&gt;<br /> -- This is no longer true for FreeBSD6? I have used sun keyboards to install FreeBSD6 on my sparc machines.<br /> <br /> ==Booting can be problematic==<br /> The OpenBoot Firmware: learn it, love it.<br /> <br /> ==Java is more of a pain==<br /> All the Java sources and installers etc etc -- they're iX86 only. <br /> <br /> [[Category : Architecture-Specific]]</div>

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