SPARC Live CD?

[Tom Buskey]

On 12/20/06, Jason Stephenson <jason at sigio.com> wrote:
> Tom Buskey wrote:
>
> > I'd imagine there's a NetBSD and maybe OpenBSD or Gentoo.
>
> I'd imagine that, too, but I can't find a working link to either for the
> Sparc architecture.
>
> The only live OpenBSD CDs that I find are for i386.
>
> The working links that I can find for NetBSD live CDs are also for i386.
>
> I found a neat article on making your own OpenBSD live CD. Of course, it
> is targeted at the i386 architecture.
>
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/07/14/openbsd_live.html
>
> There are a couple of FreeBSD live CD projects:
>
> http://livecd.sourceforge.net/
> http://www.freesbie.org/
>
> I'm not sure if they support all of FreeBSD's architectures or not.
> FreeBSD also only supports sparc64, and not sparc.

Well, the Ultra Sparc is sparc64.

It's similar to the "All the world's a VAX" syndrome of the 80s :-)