Subject: Re: performa 5400/160 ?
To: Chris Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-macppc
Date: 08/28/2000 19:25:31
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 01:15:47PM -0400, Chris Tribo wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I may be able to get a  performa 5400/160, is it supported yet ?
> > http://www2.fr.NetBSD.org/Ports/macppc/models.html seems to imply it is,
> > but I've not been able to enter the openfirmware with ctrl-apple-O-F.
> > Is there something else for this on older powermacs ?
> 
> 	I don't mean to sound idiotic, but you're sure this is a 5400/160
> and not a 52xx/160? The slowest 5400 I've seen was 200MHz, but it could

It's really printed 5400/160 on the box, I just checked again :)

> (probably) be coincidence. That not being the case, you will probably have
> to use bootvars or System Disk (System Disk recomended, even though it
> complains, it still works) to set your input and output device to keyboard

Ok, I'll try if I can get this machine for myself.

> and screen respectivly, as OF is probably set to default to the Serial
> Console (hence it might not listen to Cmd-Opt-O-F). There is also a
> footnote on the model support page about this system.

Hum, I like serial consoles but this mean I'll have to find an adapter :)

thanks for the anserw !

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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