Subject: Re: LC040 Performa 636: Hopeless?
To: Dustin Deppe <dustin@whidbey.net>
From: Jason Godfrey <godfreja@adam.cs.uwec.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/12/1997 16:14:09
Everything should work except for the FPU emulation. You should be able to
boot, but you'll get lots of segmentation faults.
Once that is fixed, as long as you have a SCSI disk everything should be fine.
>I have a Performa 636CD non-FPU mac. From what I've read on the web page I
>can't currently load NetBSD because of a scuzy and fpu problem. I have an
>external drive with a 700MB A/UX partition and I tried the latest official
>version off the web site, and it looked like all was going well until the
>booter froze just before booting into UNIX--all the preperation seemed to be
>error-less. Is it impossible for me to get it running, or just hard? Any
>ideas?
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