NetBSD/distrib/notes/sun3/hardware

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$NetBSD: hardware,v 1.4 1998/01/09 18:47:33 perry Exp $
NetBSD/sun3 _VER runs on most Sun3 machines, including:
3/50, 3/60, 3/110
3/75, 3/150, 3/160
3/260, 3/280, 3/E
NetBSD/sun3 _VER does not run on the Sun3/80 (sun3x class)
but that is presently handled as a separate distribution.
Use NetBSD/sun3x for Sun3/80 and Sun3/470 support.
The minimal configuration requires 4M of RAM and about 80MB of disk
space. To install the entire system requires much more disk space
(approx. 100MB additional space is necessary for full sources).
To run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended. Good
performance requires 8MB of RAM, or 16 MB when running the
X Window System.
Here is a table of recommended HD partition sizes for a full install:
partition: advise, with X, needed, with X
root (/) 20M 20M 15M 15M
user (/usr) 95M 125M 75M 105M
swap ----- 2M for every M ram -----
local (/usr/local) up to you
As you may note the recommended size of /usr is 20M greater than
needed. This is to leave room for a kernel source and compile tree as
you will probably want to compile your own kernel. (GENERIC is large
and bulky to accommodate all people).
Note that the sun3 installation procedure uses a `miniroot' image
which is placed into the swap area of the disk. The swap partition
must be at least as large as the miniroot image (8MB).
The following Sun3 hardware is supported:
Serial ports (RS232):
built-in ttya, ttyb
Video adapters:
bwtwo, cgtwo, cgfour
Network interfaces:
On-board Lance Ethernet
On-board or VME Intel Ethernet
Sun3/E SCSI/Ethernet board
SCSI: (Most SCSI disks, tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.)
On-board "si" (SCSI-3)
VME "si" (SCSI-3) board
Sun3/E SCSI/Ethernet board
SMD Disks: (the big, heavy ones 8^)
Xylogics 450/451
Xylogics 753/7053
Input devices:
Sun keyboard and mouse
Miscellaneous:
Battery-backed real-time clock.
If it's not on this list, there is no support for it in this release.