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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us!briggs From: briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us (Allen Briggs) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Reviews Requested: NetBSD Mac68k Date: 13 Nov 1994 01:59:43 GMT Organization: Home, Blacksburg, Virginia Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3a3ruf$l0j@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <tweak-1211941742160001@net73.metronet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us In article <tweak-1211941742160001@net73.metronet.com> tweak@metronet.com (Michael Sitarzewski) writes: >Can any of you give me some info on the ease of installation and general >stability of this release? Being somewhat biased, I think it's pretty easy to install ;-) It's quite stable on some systems. Mainly, it's pretty stable on the stock Mac II, SE/30, or similar machine. There are a number of bugs, though, and limitations--like no floppy support and broken clock r/w routines. >it requires a 68020 w/ pmmu or does it rely on the some other mechanism? >The reason I ask is that I have an old SE with a 25mhz '020/pmmu upgrade >card. It requires an '030+FPU, or '020+PMMU+FPU. It also requires something more than a clue about your hardware. If I remember right, the SE is rather different from the II-series or later macs. I doubt very much that it'll work. If you are bound and determined to give it a go, you can download the booter and the kernel, extract the kernel from its tarred, gzipped form, and try booting it (there's an option to load the kernel from the MacOS instead of from the BSD partition). -allen -- Allen Briggs - end killing - allen.briggs@vt.edu ** MacBSD == NetBSD/Mac **