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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!col.hp.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!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: NetBSD on an LCIII Date: 31 Dec 1995 20:06:13 GMT Organization: Home, Blacksburg, Virginia Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4c6qfl$g49@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <c1d7cb$14260.27c@news.hampshire.edu> <4c5cfv$j7i@rebecca.albany.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us NNTP-Posting-User: briggs In article <4c5cfv$j7i@rebecca.albany.edu>, Jaime <jk7023@CNSVAX.ALBANY.EDU> wrote: > My understanding, and mind you I'm new to NetBSD, is that it will not >run on a LC III. Well... It'll sort of run on the LCIII. It requires a serial console for current kernels, but some work by John Wittkoski will allow the regular ADB keyboard & mouse to work. > However, I've heard of something called Linux-II which should do what >you'd like. Its basically Linux ported to the PowerPC platform. The PowerMac >port is a little quirky, last I heard. (B&W X, some trick with booting, and >one or two other problems which they were still working on.) I have no idea >where Linux-II can be found. Hmm... I've not heard of this Linux-II. There is a Linux/ppc which is porting to the Motorola Ultra boards, the Be, and a machine from FirePower. They have apparently gained some contact at Apple, recently, and might be able to get some support from them. The B&W X, at least, sounds like a limitation from NetBSD/mac68k--we're lacking some of the driver support required to get color X up and running. -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>