On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Daniel Knight wrote:

> I have a nice collection of older Macs at home and would like to try 
> MacBSD.
excellent choice!

> 
> 1) What's the best way to get everything I need?
if you have a fast network connection, thats my favorite way (ftp).  If
you don't have one local to your machines, a zip disk works nicely if you
have a fast network connection somewhere else to down load stuff from.
If not, you can always do what I did for my first NetBSD install and just
download via a modem (I used a 2400 baud connection!).

> 2) How much RAM, hard drive space will it require?
for the mac, you can get the complete operating system with X, some swap,
and a little left over for around 200 MB of disk space.  Actually, I think
I did it on a 160 MB (maybe?) before.  When I first used NetBSD with 5MB
of RAM it was _really_ slow.  Upgrading to 20 MB was a huge improvement.
Never tried in the middle.

> 3) Given the following, which will be the easiest to set up:
>    - SE/30
>    - IIcx w/Apple video card (Toby?)
>    - IIsi
>    - LC
>    - LC II
the IIcx is the only one of those I've personally done.  My guess is that 
its all about the same though.


> All have 8+ MB of memory. I plan on putting BSD on an external drive. All 
> but SE/30 have Dayna ethernet cards. (SE/30 should arrive next week, so I 
> don't know which ethernet card it has.)
you may want to check out the info about slotman kernels at some point.
www.whooppee.com


> 
> 4) What's a good starter project?
> 
> Eventual goals: setting up a domain name server at work that lets us 
> retire MacDNS, setting up a web server at home to replace NetPresenz on 
> my Quadra 650.

well, the web server sounds pretty easy.  Be sure to check out the
packages collection under "software" from www.netbsd.org.  Apache is part
of the packages collection and is a web server app.

Good luck,


-Dan