On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Vincent Kraeutler wrote:

> hi andrew,
> 
> it seems like my mail was a bit too quick -- should have read
> the follow-ups first...
> 
> as to your drive sharing problems:
> i have been trying to make NetBSD be nice and share my one and
> only drive with MacOS all day yesterday. are your saying there
> really is no way to do this?
> 

This was certaintly my experience during the install process -- sysinst
did not give me the option to install on an existing partition (despite
what the installation notes say), and I ended up having to reformat the
entire drive.  This would be all very well and good, if it wasnt for the
fact that I still need MacOS.  I could try to install 'by hand', but I'm
not really game for this right now.  If you can figure out how to do this
(short of buying a second drive) I would love to know.  A patch to
sysinst, perhaps?

> as to LinuxPPC:
> since you're saying you're going to "try" it, i.e. not do not
> seem to have "tried" it as yet, a few words of warning (i have
> spent the last year getting frustrated with it):
>
> -- SuSe stinks (as usual), it didn't even run with the install
> kernel
> -- LinuxPPC installs fine, but the installed system crashes
> on a regular basis
> -- Debian works fairly ok, as long as you don't let it "make
> your hard drive bootable" (i had to reformat the whole thing
> afterwards)
>
> also, but this was still linux2.2, "hand-compiled" kernels would
> not recognize my keyboard...

Urgh.  Not good.  I will just have to suck-it-and-see.

	Cheers,
		Andrew


Andrew Howard                           email: ahoward@pollux.usc.edu
Department of Computer Science          http:  www-robotics.usc.edu/~ahoward 
University of Southern California       phone: 1 (213) 740 6416
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On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Vincent Kraeutler wrote:

> hi andrew,
> 
> it seems like my mail was a bit too quick -- should have read
> the follow-ups first...
> 
> as to your drive sharing problems:
> i have been trying to make NetBSD be nice and share my one and
> only drive with MacOS all day yesterday. are your saying there
> really is no way to do this?
> 
> as to LinuxPPC:
> since you're saying you're going to "try" it, i.e. not do not
> seem to have "tried" it as yet, a few words of warning (i have
> spent the last year getting frustrated with it):
> 
> -- SuSe stinks (as usual), it didn't even run with the install
> kernel
> -- LinuxPPC installs fine, but the installed system crashes
> on a regular basis 
> -- Debian works fairly ok, as long as you don't let it "make
> your hard drive bootable" (i had to reformat the whole thing
> afterwards)
> 
> also, but this was still linux2.2, "hand-compiled" kernels would
> not recognize my keyboard...
> 
> have fun,
> vincent
> 
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:51:12PM -0800, Andrew Howard wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Vincent:
> > 
> > Interesting; I might try that just for giggles.  At the moment, however,
> > I have had to put aside netbsd because there doesnt seem to be any
> > easy way of getting it to share a drive with MacOS.  Hopefully someone will 
> > get around to hacking sysinst so that it respects Apple partition info.
> > In the meantime I'm going the try *blush* LinuxPPC. 
> > 
> > 	Cheers,
> > 		Andrew
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Vincent Kraeutler wrote:
> > 
> > > hi howard,
> > > 
> > > just today i tried to install netBSD on an iMac rev. D.
> > > similar problems to yours.
> > > 
> > > i could boot the install system using the following procedure 
> > > (interestingly enough):
> > > 
> > > at the OF prompt boot ofwboot.xcf and netbsd.ram.gz (not the 
> > > ungzipped one).
> > > this gave some error message, and prompted me for a boot system.
> > > i pointed to boot.fs.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > this worked for me(all three files on a hfs partition).
> > > only this combination, though.
> > > 
> > > greets,
> > > vincent
> > > 
> > 
> > University of Southern California       phone: 1 (213) 740 6416
> > Andrew Howard                           email: ahoward@pollux.usc.edu
> > Department of Computer Science          http:  www-robotics.usc.edu/~ahoward 
> > Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. 90089-0781      fax:   1 (213) 740 7512
> >     << Insert pithy saying here >>>
> > 
>