Re: Quadra 700

[Donald Lee <MacBSD.68k%caution.icompute.com@localhost>]

If you have an AFS (Apple File Sharing) handy, you can use the
"network access" floppy to boot, and run the booter from the
network volume.  That's the only way I know of to boot a 68K machine
without a Macos partition on the hard disk.

The network access floppy can still be downloaded from Apple.
(though I don't have the link handy)  You need MacOS to write the
floppy if you want to create it from the Apple download.

I don't have CDs on my 68Ks.  (only one of which is still mine)

-dgl-


>Hello,
>
>    I finally got around today to installing four 4 Mbyte
>SIMMs in my old Quadra 700, which I've kept around with the
>intention of trying NetBSD/mac68k. The machine seems healthy
>enough with the exception of the hard disk, which has
>presumably siezed because of the long period of non-use.  I
>understand that the internal drive much be a 3.5" 8-bit,
>electrically single-ended SCSI disk (or something that can
>"fall back" to operate that way).  What's the disk capacity
>limit for a Quadra 700?  Am I right in thinking that I will
>need to install something like System 7 on a small
>partition, to boot from?
>
>Thanks,
>  - Andy Ball.