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From: atbrown1@students.uiuc.edu (brown andrew todd)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: NetBSD on a PB150 with an IDE drive?
Date: 8 Mar 1996 18:17:56 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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Hi,

Has anyone reported success/failure in installing NetBSD on a 
Mac PowerBook 150?  This model has an IDE hard drive.. I wasn't
sure if that complicates things.

I've been told that the driver for the IDE disk is in the ROM
of the PB150, and for that reason, I couldn't partition the disk.

Can NetBSD coexist on a common partition with System 7?  Can 
NetBSD run on this strange IDE drive configuration? 

I checked the NetBSD for Mac web page and the mailing list 
archives, but never saw any mention of the PB150.  And I'm quite
new to the Mac world, so forgive me if I've neglected to look to
an 'obvious' source for answers to these questions.

Thanks!
Andrew

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