Subject: Re: Screenless Performa575 install probs.
To: Allan Fields <afields@hotmail.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/13/1997 14:34:52
	Maybe there's a netbsd/mac68k user nearby who can build a disk
	for you - where are you located?

                David/abs               abs@anim.dreamworks.com

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On Tue, 13 May 1997, Allan Fields wrote:

>      I have a screenless ( --flybacks dead) Performa 575 that I wish to install 
> NetBSD on.  I am having trouble installing the software since in order to 
> install it, you must be able to see what you are doing.  I have tried moving the 
> mouse, and guessing where it will land -- but I just can't get it down to the 
> point where installation would be feasible.  Anyone got any idea how I can go 
> about installing NetBSD on this sucker?  Are there text based installation or 
> partitioning utilities?  And if so will they run over a serial port?  If this 
> where a sun, I would just attach a serial terminal to it, and start the 
> installation.  I have a feeling this hardware is quite a bit different -- prove 
> me wrong.
>      By the way, unfortunately this is the *only* mac I have access to, besides 
> a SE. :(  If I had access to a LC or something like that, I wouldn't have posted 
> this message.  I have tried to install the stuff from the SE, but it locks-up 
> when I run the install util.  The SE is not supported, is it?
> 
>      Thanx for your time,
>      Allan Fields (new to list),
>      afields@hotmail.com,
>      bort@earthling.net
> 
> 
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