Subject: Re: powerbook duo 250 needed for loan to get supported?
To: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
From: William Duke <wduke@cogeco.ca>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/29/2006 13:32:51
On Mon, 2006-29-05 at 09:21 +0200, Hauke Fath wrote:
> At 12:04 Uhr -0500 28.5.2006, nick thompson wrote:
> > thank you so much for this information. this is one of the nicest lists
> > I have ever been on. thanks so much.
> 
> You're welcome.  :)
> 
> >Also, I thought you (or perhaps someone else earlier in the thread)
> >mentioned that we do not have support for a nubus ethernet controller in
> >netbsd?? Is this true or not?
> 
> Nubus ethernet cards in general are well-supported. What is not supported
> is the Nubus (and most other stuff) in the DuoDock. But you can still use a
> Nubus ethernet card under MacOS to copy the NetBSD Booter and the release
> tarballs to the Duo.
> 

There's also the issue of practicality.   How practical is it to install
NetBSD on a machine with no ethernet/Internet access?