Hi Again:
Thought I would clear up the iffy parts of my prior mail.
Since I got back home tonight I've also been experimenting a bit.  So, I'll
be able to be more clear as to what's going on.


>I've been trying to get installed on a MacIIci, 20Mb RAM, 410Mb drive.
>
>I have a 50 or 100mb partition for the Mac OS 7.5.3 and the rest is set
>up currently in a Root/Usr partition and a 60Mb Swap partition.

It's a 410Mb drive, on SCSI ID 6, Partitioned as follows:

MacHD      110 Mb
root /user  232 Mb
swap          66  Mb


>
>I finally got the right idea with the partitioning scheme ( /dev/sd0a,
>etc... which was a tad different than the MkLinux I'd toyed with on my
>8100, but that's another story) changed the name of the kernel to "bsd"
>rather than "netbsd" since that looked like what I had there, and got
>the booter to actually try booting.

The "bsd" as the kernel I determined due to the fact that it was one of the
three non directories at root when I looked at it in the 'mini-shell'.  The
other two files there, just gave errors that they were unreadable or some
such, so they were not it I suppose.

>
>During its startup, as it was checking everything, it would get to the
>ADB and hang there....for quite some time.  I think I walked away for a
>good 5-10 minutes and it just hung.  I tried resetting the IIci and
>trying the boot again.  Same thing.

Ok, this is where it's getting wierd.  I have reinstalled the three base
parts via the "NetBSD/Mac68k Installer":
  base26.tar.gz
  bsd-generic.tar.gz
  comp26.tar.gz

I've now gotten the booter settings set to black and white monitor only,
and the kernel file set to "bsd" and looking to SCSI ID 6, and partition
set to /dev/sd0a

Now when I boot, I get a hang when it checks ADB 3 and sees a mouse.  It
does not go past that mouse.
and if I set the color to 256 rather than B/W, I get a kernel panic.  I
suppose I can live with B/W.  But the mouse thing is getting me.  I changed
out the mouse, and it hangs at that same part. ADB 3

>
>Can anyone point out what I am missing or doing wrong here?  I thank you
>in advance for any help/insight you can provide.
>
>-Astrozomby-



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