you would also need to check if your mac ii has the pmmu installed, to
run netbsd on - at least i think so (?). as for macos, with 32bit
memory addressing (you need the control panel mode32 to do that) and
pmmu you can run up to macos 7.5.5 on your mac ii.

best regards, ulrich

On 7:18 Uhr +0200 04.07.1999, Colin Wood wrote:

> 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