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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!IntGame!imci2!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!seismo.demon.co.uk!user From: russ@seismo.demon.co.uk (Russ Evans) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD/68k question Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 07:50:01 +0100 Organization: Dis Organisation Lines: 50 Message-ID: <russ-0503960750010001@seismo.demon.co.uk> References: <4h0uba$oek@news.interpath.net> <spiritwalker-0403961934530001@pnthrmdn.resnova.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: seismo.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: seismo.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.2.0b4 In article <spiritwalker-0403961934530001@pnthrmdn.resnova.com>, spiritwalker@pop.resnova.com (James D. Skee) wrote: > Its more or less true. I tried installing it on my Quadra 650, and the > Booter program warned me that I was attempting to install it on an > "untested" Mac. Proceeding and hoping, it crashed. Then I tried to install > it on my IIcx, a Mac which was in the "will work" list. The Installer > utility crashed everytime I attempted to mount a separate filesystem, and > Booter got about as far as it did with my 650 (although with different > errors). Now Im running A/UX 3.0.2 on my 650, with my IIcx waiting for > some kind of UNIX... my only dissapointment with A/UX is that there is no > PPP software available (but is there even SLIP available for MacBSD?) I've just installed MacBSD successfully on my IIvi, and very nice it is, too. I'm trawling through c.u.n.m for additional info, but here are a few points I've gleaned which may help. i. The MacBSD development folks don't seem to comment much in Usenet fora; they are however, very accessible via their mailing lists. Grab a copy of their archives from the NetBSD or puma machines. Lots of useful material there! ii. PPP works fine on MacBSD. Not terribly well documented, however. iii. The will/won't work list seems to be a little out of date. My IIvi is in the 'serial' list, and produces the 'untested' warning, but in fact, there were zero problems (at least, none attributable to MacBSD!) There is a well-documented bug with the installer utility as distributed, which is that it doesn't grab enough Mac memory. Give it more using the 'Get Info' box -- it crashed on me, first time I tried. That said, I don't recall that the installer is able to mount more than the root filesystem. Why would you want to? iv. There's an updated version of the kernel (netbsd.GENERIC_52.tar.gz, dated late January) which includes some bugfixes, and might be worth getting and overlaying on top of or alongside the 1.1 distribution kernel. I get the impression most of the bugfixes are associated with the serial ports. v. IIRC, the mailing list includes mention from the developers that they have at least partially operating systems running on 040 machines. There's hope for your Quadra yet! Bottom line: give MacBSD another try -- it sounds like you were almost up and running on your IIcx, and it's worth the effort. Russ Copied to newsgroup for general reference.