Sparc - Gotchas
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Revision as of 06:34, 9 July 2007
This is a stub article for different things to be aware of when installing or using FreeBSD on Sparc hardware.
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Servers only, thanks.
FreeBSD Sparc = No GUI. See this link w/r/t 5.0; later versions of FreeBSD documentation do not mention it at all.
Sun keyboard and mouse? Throw them away!
Toss 'em because you can't use 'em. Serial console installation only, please. See Sparc_-_Terminal_Emulation
-- This is no longer true for FreeBSD6? I have used sun keyboards to install FreeBSD6 on my sparc machines.
Booting can be problematic
The OpenBoot Firmware: learn it, love it.
Java is more of a pain
All the Java sources and installers etc etc -- they're iX86 only.
