Hi,

This reminded me that I've been sucessful with sysinst and NetBSD 2.0
on a 12 meg 520c or so with no swap.  So, if you can get up to 12 meg
you should be fine.

You can partition your disk using sysinst now.  You will have to have
a small MacOS partition to boot from and run the NetBSD booter.  I live
with a 5 meg one and I use the Apple 7.5 Network Access disk (search
the archives for the pointer to the apple download) which is a basic
system 7.5 on one 1.4meg floppy as my boot partition.  I just copy the whole 
floppy to my hfs partition.

cheers

bruce

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 04:31:30PM -0600, Joe Laffey wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Steve Rikli wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 10:16:59AM -0600, Joe Laffey wrote:
> >>...
> >>>I don't btw, know how well the 8 meg will work.  Can
> >>>you expand the memory?
> >>
> >>Indeed 8 megs is pretty brutal, especially for the install. In order to
> >>install I had to enable swap from the utility menu shell before running
> >>the installer.
> >>
> >>I DID manage to get it installed, but it was a royal pain, and I do not
> >>recall the details.
> >>...
> >
> >In general, do folks tend to follow the INSTALL.* docs for port-mac68k
> >with reasonable success?
> >
> >My impression is the biggest hurdle _may_ be disk partitioning and
> >basically having to interact w/MacOS a bit to get to NetBSD; I thought
> >I read that 2.0 sysinstall had taken some of the MacOS dependency out
> >of the picture, but I'm by no means a veteran with mac68k.
> >
> >After I'm done resurrecting an Indy I have a Quadra630 that seems to
> >want to live again ;-) , and if the regular NetBSD INSTALL docs are
> >the best known starting place (as I've come to expect in other ports),
> >I'm going to forge ahead.
> >
> >Other pointers welcome, of course.
> 
> 
> Actually, I now recall that, in order to install onto my 8 meg machine (a 
> POwerbook 520c), I used the old installer that you run from MacOS. The 
> sysinit installer didn't want to work correctly with that little memory.
> 
> The old style works very well, actually. Of course sysinit has always 
> worked well on PC hardware for me, and I welcome it on mac68k.
> 
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