Hello William,

I have read your messages and I decided to use 1.6.x instead of 3.0  
releases.

Just one more question: should I use 1.6.2 or should I use netbsd-1-6  
last build (200512250000Z)?

Thanks a lot,

	Nuno Teixeira



On 2005/12/24, at 22:23, William Duke wrote:

> I just perused the NetBSD site for information about the 3.0  
> release that is
> specific to the Macintosh 68k, and here's what I found:
>
> Changes to NetBSD/mac68k 3.0
>
>     * Support to build with soft-float enabled. [jmmv 20040926]
>     * Non port specific changes that may affect port-mac68k.
>
> The only change specific to the Macintosh 68k, was support for  
> builds with
> soft-float enabled.  But if you look at the changes by date, you  
> see this:
>
> September 2004
> # mac68k
> Support to build with soft-float enabled. [jmmv 20040926]
>
> So support to build with soft-float enabled, was added more than a  
> year ago.
>
> What I was really interested in, was progress on sysinst.  As you  
> know,
> sysinst on the 68k Macintosh is terribly buggy, so I went looking for
> changes to sysinst in release 3.0.   Here's what I found:
>
> # sysinst
> Added Spanish language translation. [xtraeme 20050826]
>
> Huh?  Spanish language translation was added to a program that  
> still doesn't
> work?  Where are the priorities here?  Now even the Spanish can  
> bitch about
> sysinst not doing what it says it does. :(
>
> I really can't see any reason for anybody using a 68k Macintosh, to  
> upgrade
> to NetBSD release 3.0.  If you want a color X server on your 68k  
> Macintosh,
> you're gonna have to run the 1.6.x X11 binaries.  If you're going  
> to do
> that, you may as well just stick with the full 1.6.x release of  
> NetBSD.
>
> From what I've been able to gather from a quick perusal of the  
> NetBSD site,
> there's not much being offered to 68k users in general, let alone  
> the users
> of the 68K Macintosh.
>
> Anyway, people gots to have choices, and choices gots to have  
> voices...
> People are basically decent --- conventional wisdom would say.
>
> Ciao
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> From: Nuno Teixeira <nunotex@mac.com>
>> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 17:52:24 +0000
>> To: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
>> Subject: NetBSD 3 on SE/30 init not found
>>
>> Hello to all,
>>
>> I installed NetBSD 3 on a SE/30 and it panics:
>>
>> (generic sbc)
>>
>> root file system type: ffs
>> exec /sbin/init: error 8
>> exec /sbin/oinit: error 2
>> init: trying /sbin/init.bak
>> exec /sbin/init.bak: error 2
>> init: not found
>> panic: no init
>>
>>
>> NetBSD 2.1 runs ok. Does anyone has this problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Nuno Teixeira
>>
>>
>>
>

Nuno Teixeira