On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Henry Ware wrote:

.. Hi,
.. 
.. I have a pile of MacIIsi's sitting around here and I'd like to 
.. put netBSD on them.  I also have a pile of questions :^)
Who don't....
.. 
.. How do I know if I have '32-bit dirty' ROM?
.. I'm not sure if they have FPUs on not: how can I find out?
The IIsi was one of the first Macintoshes that were produced to
allow 32-bit addressing. Just turn it on in the MacOS Memory
control panel
.. 
.. What does miniroot get set to?  (Something of the form /dev/* or 
.. what?)
I never used the miniroot. Use the MacOS mkfs and installer utilities
to install a complete runnable NetBSD system.
.. 
.. If the don't, how do I answer the FAQ's point 3.8.2 (your machine 
.. prefers an FPU (M68881 or M68882))-- it should _boot_ without a FPU,
.. right?
If you have an Apple PDS or NuBus adapter card, that'll include the
FPU. Otherwise I don't know the current state of affairs...but yes,
you should be able to boot.
.. 
.. I guess all this is premature-- when I use the booter from within
.. MacOS, I get:
.. =-=-
.. [...]
.. Env:  "HWCFGFLAG2" set to 30527(0x773f).
.. Env:  "HWCFGFLAG3" set to 16777510(0x1000126).
.. 
.. Set _mac68k_vrsrc_cnt to 0x0.
.. 
.. Set _mac68k_vrsrc_vect to {0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 }.
.. =-=-
.. and then it hangs.  Any clues?
.. (Booter 1.8, netbsd_GENERIC_57 kernel, IIsi 9M ram, 
.. booter size set to 2.5M, extentions off).
Have you installed the NetBSD files as mentioned above? You may also
need to set the Screen control panel to black-and-white (1-bit) instead
of colours.
.. 
.. Thanks,
.. Henry
.. 
.. BTW: the MetaFAQ points people to the macbsd-general list, 
.. but the archives indicated it was a dead list.
.. 

regards
Erik Bertelsen