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SPARC (from Scalable PRocessor ARChitecture) is a RISC CPU architecture developed by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle).

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I am trying to run solaris 10 OS on qemu-sparc64 emulator with command: qemu-system-sparc64 -M sun4u -m 3048 -drive file=sparc.qcow2,format=qcow2,bus=0,unit=0,media=disk -cdrom sol-10-u11-ga-sparc-...
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I recently installed OpenBSD on my sparc64 workstation and I wanted to use fluxbox for my desktop environment. When I install it and try to start it it gives a error saying "couldn't connect to ...
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I want to boot Solaris8 SPARC version by Qemu. $ qemu-system-sparc64 -boot d -cdrom SOL_8_204_SPARC.iso -net nic -net user -m 2048 But it shows this error: OpenBIOS for Sparc64 Configuration device ...
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I'm currently trying to install PCP on Debian with sparc64. Unfortunately it requires the package libreadline6 (>= 6.0) which doesn't have an apt package for sparc64. libreadline7 does and is ...
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Here at work our machines are required to run off of old Sun Sparc5's (1995) all running a UFS architecture on the hard drives due to a Solaris 5.3ish base. The way they are configured it is not ...
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We have solaris zones running in Sparc T5 server Currently a solaris zone run Solaris 10 OS version. $uname -a SunOS zone01 5.10 Generic_150400-30 sun4v sparc sun4v Going further, we would like ...
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I am running Solaris 7 on qemu-sparc with lance ethernet card. In case with Linux starting dhcpcd is enough to get the Internet access. OK, I created /etc/dhcp.le0, network interface is up, but "ping ...
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I have Solaris 8 OS installed in French. I have a computer with Solaris 8 OS and French language installed. This computer isn't in my office; to access it I use Exceed. I have to switch the installed ...
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I have an old Sun Blade 1500, with a Ultrasparc IIIi 1.5 GHz, 2GB ECC RAM. SunOS 5.10, ufs filesystem. The hardware (MB, HDD and video card) is failing on me and I'm searching for a way to emulate it ...
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On Solaris I use stop+a to enter prom If terminal is serial console without stop key,what is the break key? I try stty -a but no break key found. CTRL+C of course doesn't work because only ...
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I have a Sparc server with Debian 7.9 I tried to install gnome or KDE with these commands but it doesn't work: root@LABS://# apt-get install gnome Reading package lists... Done Building ...
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