Subject: Re: powerbook duo 250 needed for loan to get supported?
To: nick thompson <nicholas.thompson1@mchsi.com>
From: William Duke <wduke@cogeco.ca>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/28/2006 15:33:40
On Sun, 2006-28-05 at 12:55 -0500, nick thompson wrote:
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> Hauke Fath wrote:
> > At 2:58 Uhr -0500 28.5.2006, nick thompson wrote:
> > Well, as I said: Grab the NetBSD Booter application and a recent install
> > kernel from ftp.netbsd.org, and boot the latter. If it boots into the
> > sysinst installer, no machine-specific work should be necessary.
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> > 	hauke
> 
> Ok, well, i will do that. The problem is, I don't have floppies for the
> duudock that fit it (they are not 1.44M right? ) and if they are, what I
> have at my disposal are Openbsd, Freebsd, and Gentoo GNU/Linux to write
> an apple sytem 7.5 formatted floppy. Any hints, oh gurus?
> 

Don't know if the floppy drive of the Duo is high-density or not, but to
format a Mac floppy on Linux, try mac-fdisk.   If you don't have that,
or can't find it, or if it doesn't work, try a Mac emulator.