Peter,
I use a IIvx w/12 RAM and Version 1.2 of NetBSD.  Absoultly NO problems 
what so ever!  No hitches, freezes, crashes anything.  Everything is 
running of an Ext Apple 1.2gb HD, and I'm getting no errors from that 
either.  As far as speed goes, yea it may be a little pokey at times, but 
it sure as hell is faster that other unix flavors for the mac (MachTen 
for example).

I guess I must be lucky then, or pssibly beginners luck. I dunno but I'm 
amazed have everything has gone for me that past 2 weeks! Been up 12 
days, not a crash no nothing!

Take care,
Chris

Ps- Developers of NetBSD, you guys are awesome!  How you made such a 
wonderful OS for the mac! I dunno how you guys do it, but keep up the 
good work!

 C.M.

On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Peter Koch wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> It wasn't in the FAQ, so i wanna ask my questions here...
> 
> I've installed NetBSD-1.3_BETA on my MacIIvx a week ago and i got some
> quirks, which annoy me and perhaps someone does have a workaround.
> 
> 1. I use MacOS 7.5.5 to boot up. It is installed on a second disk.
>    NetBSD lives on the first disk. But the Booter (1.11.1) does not
>    come to the point, where the screen clears and the kernel starts,
>    but hangs. The only workaround is to hold down the Shift-key and
>    disable the Extensions completely.
>    Of course, this means, that i can't type "reboot" remotely.
>    Is there any way to get rid of MacOS completely? Boot NetBSD
>    directly? Has someone tried this?
> 2. There and then, NetBSD shows a SCSI-error on the console. The
>    messages are quite frequent, if the machine accesses the disk
>    a lot. The messages vary, but the last line always reads:
> 	unexpected phase change.
>    Last evening, the machine crashed into the debugger after
>    such a message. It had an uptime of 7 days then.
> 3. NetBSD-1.3 is WAY slower on the Mac than on a Sun3. My IIvx
>    does have a 68030 at 33 MHz and 8 MB of memory, but my two
>    Sun3's (one 68030 at 24 MHz, one 68020 at 20 MHz) are MUCH
>    more zippier. Ok, they have 12 MB of memory, but does this
>    explain such a vast slowdown?
>    Or is the Mac hardware THAT BAD?
>    I can't believe my benchmark results... The Mac is slower,
>    even on CPU-intensive jobs?!?
> 
> Bye
> 
> Peter
> 
> P.S.: Isn't NetBSD a wonderful thing?
>