On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Andrew Galka wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Bit of a stupid question here, but i'll ask it anyway. I have just had a
> PowerMacintosh 6100 given to me, and wanted to install NetBSD on it... only
> problem is the PPC version is no supported for the 6100. I was wondering
> then if you can install the 68k version on it or something??

you can't install the 68k version on it. (well, you can, but it won't run)

> Are there any windows into BSD for this machine?

someone has been looking into how to get netbsd booted on the NuBus PPC's,
but as far as i know they haven't got it to go yet.  I believe its an
issue of how to get it booted.  the Macppc port relies on the openfirmware
which the 6100 doesn't have.

-Dan