Subject: Re: Quadra 800 support
To: Anthony Green <green@cygnus.com>
From: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/12/1997 02:16:26
> I know next to nothing about Macs, but happen to have on here in my
> office. It's a Quadra 800, and I was hoping to install something like
> NetBSD on it. From what I gather on the various web pages, the 800 is
> not supported currently because of poor, or a lack of, SCSI drivers.
> Is this really the latest news?
Anthony-
Which web pages were you looking at that seemed to indicate this? If
it's the ones on www.netbsd.org, I'll be updating them soon. If it's the
ones on www.macbsd.com, then please let me know, since they should at
least indicate that the SCSI problem on the 040-based machines is more or
less solved now. As the Quadra 800 has a full '040 processor in it, it
should work just fine with NetBSD-current (assuming there aren't any ADB,
i.e. keyboard and mouse, issues that I am not currently aware of).
I'd recommend the following:
1) Figure out which kernel is going to work best on your machine, most
likely one of the latest from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/mac68k
2) Instead of downloading the 1.2 distribution binaries, go ahead and
grab Steve Allen's latest set of tarballs (somewhere on ftp.macbsd.com, I
can't remember off of the top of my head, and possibly on ftp.netbsd.org
as well).
Go ahead and try a test boot with the kernel in question, and if it
works, do an install and have fun! As for the test boot procedure, check
out the FAQ:
http://www.macbsd.com/macbsd/macbsd-docs/faq/
I hope this helps.
Later.
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Colin Wood ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant Rice University
Information Technology Services Houston, TX