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From: "Brad Salai" <bsalai@law.roc.servtech.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD for Mac SE/30, stable??
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 15:10:50 -0500
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In article <5q28e3$js6$1@info1.lancs.ac.uk>, M.Dent@lancaster.ac.uk (Mike
Dent) wrote:

I currently run Linux on several PC's and would like to try NetBSD on my
Mac SE/30 (20mb ram + 500Mb disk). How stable will I find it?
Is it possible to leave my existing Mac system 7.1 stuff (about 120Mb) on
the
disk and install NetBSD??

I'm running a light duty mail server on an SE/30, and it is very stable for
me. I'm running 1.2.1, not the latest stuff, but I've been up for almost a
month since the last time I booted, and so far it's working fine.

That's with only 8mb of ram, I guess 20 would be nice, but so far haven't
had any major thrashing.
You will have to build an A/UX partition, but you can easily fit netbsd into
500-120 mb.

Brad