Perhaps after the next round of upgrades the Beige G3 I have can be 
retired from OS X service. Since my GF uses it now she'd kill me if I 
killed it. I have however run netbsd on it in the past (don't remember 
what version we were on at the time). I do however remember that it was 
a piece of cake. The Powerbase 200 I currently have netbsd on also runs 
like a champ.... a very sloooow champ :)

On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 02:31  AM, John Klos wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> Once I had the install working, every time I got to the part where it 
>> tried
>> to set the time zone, the machine would hang, and i had to hard-reset 
>> it.
>> The result, each time was a corrupted root FS.  I had to start over.
>
> Why not just manually set up the machine? Boot the 1.5.2 floppy, newfs 
> the
> local disk, ifconfig the network, ftp the sets into a temporary 
> directory
> on the newfs'd disk, tar xzpf the sets in the root of the local disk,
> ./MAKEDEV all, reboot into single user, edit rc.conf and fstab, and go?
>
> I wish I had a Beige G3 to play with. I was able to get NetBSD working 
> by
> simply swapping out a hard drive with OS X running on it with a hard 
> drive
> with NetBSD already running. If I actually had time to document what I 
> did
> (ie, repeat it consistently), I have a feeling it'd help a lot of 
> people.
>
> Anyone have a Beige G3 in NYC for experimentation?
>
> John Klos
> Sixgirls Computing Labs