Peter J Jones wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I recently acquired a Mac II at a garage sale for $10. The person that I
> bought it from says that it boots, but when we tried it would not go
> past the loading of the system file. I tried to boot off a MacOS 8 boot
> disk, yeah right. I don't care too much because I just want to get
> NetBSD up and running on it. I have never installed the mac68k port
> before and I have a question. Do I need to be able to boot into MacOS in
> order to install and use NetBSD? I hope not.

sorry, you do need it.  try getting a copy of 7.0.x or 7.1.  apple usually
has one or the other available on their ftp sites.

> Could someone please point
> me in the right direction to get NetBSD installed on this thing? I read
> the FAQ and did not see anything like this.

read the INSTALL doc, and the NetBSD/mac68k FAQ.  

later.

colin