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From: korthoud@montefiore.ulg.ac.be (Didier Korthoudt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: MacBSD question...
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 09:32:57
Organization: Université de Liège
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To: kenn@er5.rutgers.edu (Ken Nakata)
In article <3u8frp$t7c@er5.rutgers.edu>, kenn@er5.rutgers.edu (Ken Nakata) writes:
> korthoud@montefiore.ulg.ac.be (Didier Korthoudt) writes:
> >I've tried past week end to install MacBSD 1.0 on various Macs and I must
> >admit that this was a complete waste of time !
>
> If you had talked to us on the mailing list, you must have gotten
> some of your machines up and running by now. Pointers to the
> mailing list are scattered all rount the document. Why didn't you
> ask us for help?
Hi Ken,
Well, I must admit that I didn't know about the list at the time I've
tried installing MacBSD. I'll give it a check right after this answer.
> >As a UNIX software developper, I wished I could find some decent Mac
> >version.
>
> On my SE/30, NetBSD/mac68k (aka MacBSD) runs very fine. I'd say it's
> quite decent.
Oops ! I think the word "decent" didn't express right my idea... (I'm
not native english, just emulated :). What I wanted to say is that
MacBSD is designed to work on old Macs. I know that some of these are
the best Macs in the world (I was working on a SE/30 some years ago)
but todays Macs (040's & PPC's) are what my customers want...
> >We've tried to put it on a IIci, IIcx with no results other than the crash
> >you mention.
>
> Maybe you didn't read the documents very carefully, did you? Do you
> have 32bit addressing mode ON on those machines?
Yes, yes... I've read the docs (I always read the docs) and I've turned
32bit addressing on... I've also removed all additional parts in the
IIci to keep going on a clean basic machine.
> > We've also tried on a PM9500 which gives better results but
> > always crashes...
>
> No, no, MacBSD DOES NOT support any PMac. But you say "better
> results"... that's interesting.
Well, at that moment, a "better result" was that the boot made a step
further than on the other Macs :)
In fact, we were trying it because we considered that the emulator
acts as a 030...
> >My only hope is that someone can boost Linux for Mac development.
>
> Parhaps you'd be interested in Linux PPC party.
What I will do is to check the MacBSD list before anything else and
give it another chance to run. :)
Didier.
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