Subject: Re: Getting started...
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Daniel Bell <dbell@hops.cs.jhu.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/10/1996 00:55:56
In message <v01530500adb8072829e2@[129.133.252.101]> Tasha van Es writes:
> Hello -
> Recently, I decided to mess around to see if I could get various
> implementations of Unix running on my PwrBook 160 (030, 4mg ram). I was
> quite successful with MacMinix and while that may prove to be fun, it
> doesn't support tcp/ip at all. I'd really like to be running
> sendmail/smail, and maybe even apache or something similar, so I decided to
> try out NetBSD. However, I am encountering the following problem - I can't
> figure out how to make the A/UX partition(s) necessary for the installer to
> do its thing. I don't have A/UX, and am wondering how this would be
> achieved. The intended "HD" would be a blank Zip 100 mg zip.
> Can anyone tell me if I am barking up the wrong tree? I would welcome any
> feedback as I still have much to learn (a Yoda-like statement, huh...).
> 
> -Tasha
> 

I've never done an install on a Zip disk, or even formatted and mounted one for 
that matter, although there is a FAQ on the subject, whose url was just recently
posted. Unless things are different for Zip disks, what you need is a disk 
formatting utility, along the lines of LaCie's Silverlining or APS's PowerTools.
Apple's HD SC may be able to do this for you as well. I'd check out the FAQ 
(http://puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us/macbsd/macbsd-docs/faq) for more complete 
info. 

By the way, with very minor changes, apache runs like clockwork. Hope all goes 
well for you.

Cheers,



Daniel Bell
Johns Hopkins CS