Subject: Re: Booting on a IIsi
To: Mack Nagashima <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Josh Hope <scrptwiz@glasscity.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/13/1996 13:30:45
>	Don't preset mem to 4 megs...use auto-size ram..  you no longer 
>need to pre-set to ram to one meg less than what you actually have since 
>i think booter 1.6?   anywayz..if you're usiong booter 1.8 or higher..use 
>auto-0size ram...(5 megs ram) are you using internal video?  what type of 
>monitor?  and get base11 :)  sorta useless without it.. oh..and try to 
>find the generic 52 kernel...  (or was it 53?)  

I am using internal video, and the monitor that shipped w/ the IIsi.

I'm using Booter 1.9.2...

I took your advice and now it doesn't even boot. In the NetBSD/Mac68K box 
it says bye-bye, displays the dialog w/ the Boot button, but then the 
computer freezes after I press the Boot button.

I think this problem is something to do w/ the newer kernal. If I turn 
auto-size off again and set it to 4MB, and then boot w/ the newest 
generic kernal, it freezes like described above.

If I turn auto-size back on and boot with the netbsd11 kernal, I get the 
same result described in my previous letter. The computer boots, then 
freezes. 

I still don't have base11, none of the NetBSD sites are faster than 
100bytes/sec for me...

And that's a 14.5 hour download at 14.4 :(