You are right, my LC3 runs fine on the built in console, just no color =
support.  Thats an 030 too.

The issue is, those ram upgrades are rare & expensive.  Cheaper just to =
get a whole 486-era laptop with twice the specs!

But I just looked at the sys-reqs for 1.3.2 [the oldest version =
available on www.netbsd.org], and it says it *can* boot in 4Mb.  ...But =
then it also says 100-series powerbooks are only supported via serial =
console.

So we are back to the serial console question... =20

Maybe a skilled individual could install 1.3.2 [or earlier if available] =
and then back-port PB160 video/kbd drivers from a more recent release.  =
I noticed 1.6 for instance lists PB160 as fully supported.  That would =
give a fully portable BSD 68k laptop with just 4Mb, which I think is the =
goal.

But that back-porting project would be out of my depth.  If it is easy, =
maybe someone could point us to a howto somewhere?

my $.02.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rafael Diniz [mailto:rafael2k@terra.com.br]
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 5:46 AM
To: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Netbsd on Powerbook 160


Why do you need a serial console?
I have a PB 180 running NetBSD 1.5.3 without any problem.
I think that you only need more ram... I have 14Mb.
NetBSD will work OK in that machine.
To install NetBSD, you can Install via floppy drive, like I did, but It =
takes=20
a lot of time and patience...

Bye,
Rafael Diniz

Em Quarta 13 Novembro 2002 15:28, Fionn Cleary escreveu:
> Hi I was given a powerbook 160 and I'm interested in setting up netbsd
> on it. From what i can gather, on 68030 processors, you need a serial
> console to connect to netbsd. Has anyone set up netbsd on one of these
> machines? The machine has 4mb ram and a 130 mb hard disk. The only
> io device thats on the machine is the floppy drive; I have no scsi
> cdroms or the like.

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