Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!briggs From: briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us (Allen Briggs) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Help Installing 68k NetBSD on Mac II Date: 14 Jul 1995 11:47:41 GMT Organization: Home, Blacksburg, Virginia Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3u5lgt$3o8@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <twei-0507951145210001@twei.utmem.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us NNTP-Posting-User: briggs In article <twei-0507951145210001@twei.utmem.edu>, Ted Wei, Jr. <twei@mail.eye.utmem.edu> wrote: >"You need a PMMU or a 68030 or above to run this" "Orange Whip" > >I have a MAC II with an 80MB HD, 2MB partitioned for MAC o/S, the rest an >A/UX partition. Does that mean I can't run NetBSD on this machine? You are doing nothing wrong except overlooking the error message and the hardware requirements... ;-) The 68020 has no inherent facilities for paged memory management. NetBSD needs to have a PMMU (68851) with the 68020. The 68030 and 68040 have that functionality built-in (in slightly different ways). So, you need to pick up a PMMU to replace the HMMU that Apple has filling the slot, or you need to get a 68030 upgrade (an accelerator (which may not work under NetBSD--some successes have been noted) or a IIx upgrade (which will also give you the 1.4MB floppy support on the motherboard and ROMs that will allow you to use more memory, I think)). -allen -- Allen Briggs - end killing - allen.briggs@bev.net ** MacBSD == NetBSD/mac68k ** Where does all my time go? <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">Guess.</a>