Hello,

> it would make more sense to get an
> installation up and running on a small SCSI drive in order to play
> with the experimental IDE support. You're really reaching, expecting
> to do a virgin install on IDE. Lotsa Luck!

thanks, but I needed to give up installing NetBSD on Quadra 630 / IDE. I
managed to partition the disk with pdisk but I was even unable to install MAC-OS
on it, again. One can't install MAC-OS from floppy, one needs to do it from
a harddrive. I couldn't attach a second IDE harddrive because I was unable to
open the case ;-(

SCSI drives? Inside on the front left side is some space for an additional
harddisk or CDROM drive. I assume there is the SCSI interface, but I have
never seen such an adaptor
for SCSI drives.

Well, a couple of years ago I installed MK Linux on my hp735. MK-Linux
consisted of a ~400MB raw image of the filesystem. One needed to "dd" it directly
on the target drive. I think it consisted only of a root and swap partition -
enough to boot from. After booting one could add a /usr partition on the
additional space of the drive. I really wish this exists for NetBSD/Mac68k with
IDE support, too (say, 50MB free MacOS 7.5.{3,5}, 64 MB swap, 100 MB root or
so). hint hint hint ;-)

Cheers
 Stefan

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