6.1.4 running on a Performa 450 / LCIII

[Bjarne Bäckström <bjarne.backstrom%hjomail.se@localhost>]

   Good day, is anybody still listening on this channel? I haven’t touched 
NetBSD since early 2010, when I stuffed ’everything' in boxes and moved to a 
new apartment. At that time I had tried vn 5<something> without much success. 
The other day I happened to stumble over the LCIII, and decided to see if I 
could run the latest and greatest of NetBSD on this machine.

   Installing via sysinst over ftp went very smooth (though it took about 7 
hours to install pkgsrc), and after that the system was up and running in no 
time flat (give or take an hour or three).

   The most annoying thing so far is that makemandb will hog the processor for 
abt 45 minutes every time at startup, making the computer almost unusable 
during that time. Other than that, there doesn’t seem to be any problems — not 
that I have run any heavy smoke tests so far.

   X forwarding works fine with the ’standard’ installation, though it would be 
nice to have color X. Would the ole, trusted color X server from 1.6.2 still 
run on this system?

   Many thanks and respect to the people who are still developing stuff for 
these old systems!
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