Ed Schouten wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> Yesterday I was helping a friend of mine with his Wintel machine (you know,
> removing spyware). After a little chit-chat, he told me that he had an Apple
> Quadra 650 in the attic, which I could have *joy* *joy*
> 
> So I tried to boot NetBSD on the thing and it works, but I want to be able
> to boot NetBSD without any interaction, because it will be a small server, I
> guess...
> 
> In the FAQ, I read that you could boot NetBSD from a small Mac OS install or
> from a bootable floppy, with Booter. Does any of you guys know if it is
> possible to do an automated bootup on these things?
> 
> Yours,

Yes.

You need a minimal MacOS install. 7.x is recommended (by the
almighty me *grin*), as it boots faster and uses far fewer resources
doing so.

Once you have NBSD booting to your satisfaction, put an alias of the
booter app in the MacOS "Startup Items" folder in the System folder
(yes, they're "directories," but this is MacOS). ;)

You may need to do some research on which pins to pin-out on the
video interface to keep the Mac firmware from complaining. I used a
section of paperclip to jump the necessary pins on my Q605.

./k

./k

kurt von finck
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