Subject: Re: Performa 630
To: Karsten Schneeberger <kschneeberger@cybernet-ag.de>
From: Christoph Ewering <eweri@uni-paderborn.de>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/19/1997 13:54:39
Hello Karsten!
> Does NetBSD run on my Macintosh Performa 630 with 68040 processor
> without FPU, CommSlot-Ethernet card, 20 MB RAM, 350 MB IDE drive,
> 2xSpeed SCSI-CDROM ?

Well, your 68LC040 is the first problem, it was just discussed in this
maillist, that the 68LC040 has got a bug that makes it impossible or
at least very difficult to emulate an FPU.

The second problem is the IDE drive and the comm-slot, at the moment 
there is no support for this hardware.

If you use an external SCSI-drive where you install NetBSD on, it may
work.

> I have some experience in running Linux on my Intel PC. Is it possible
> to use
> a Bootmanager like Linux-LILO to choose between NetBSD and Mac OS ?

There is no Bootmanager for NetBSD/mac68k, but you can install a mini
MacOS on a small partition and put the bootloader into the startup
folder.

> Where can I get a netBSD distribution on CD-ROM ?

Just ftp, no CD-ROM. :-(
And some things are missing in the ftp-archiv. If you are looking for
some binaries, look at ftp://ftp.uni-regensburg.de/ in NetBSD-Amiga.
This binaries work with NetBSD/mac68k and there are lot of binaries.
:-)

I use the madhatter#37 kernel on my Q700, and it works very well.

Bye,
	Christoph
	
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