Subject: Re: A newbie installation works first time out!
To: NetBSD PortMac68k Mailing List <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/02/2001 18:03:38
Matthew Theobalds wrote:

>Not so long ago Dan said:
>
>> Well, I have an old LC 475 that I put a full 68040 in. Got the computer at a
>> thrift store for $15.00 including a 1.2 gig hard drive and an ethernet card.
>> It has 20 meg of ram as well. I haven't touched unix etc in probably 15
>> years and did an install of the 1.5 kernel. Took a few hours, mostly waiting
>> for the installer to do its thing and presto, a working system after just a
>> few minutes. Installed Tinymush 3, and Tinyfugue and they worked first time
>> out in perhaps 30 minutes tops. The only thing that doesn't work at the
>> moment is xwindows but that's no big deal.
>
>That's great to hear!
>
>Since I'm working on documentation; is there anywhere after the install you
>feel you could do with a little support? SSH / Apache / PHP perhaps?
>
>That way I'll know better where to take my Documentation project.

For those who haven't seen it yet, Matthew has contributed a First Time 
User's Installation Guide for NetBSD/mac68k.  It's located at:

     http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/theobald/

Sounds like he's looking for some ideas on where to take it next. All of 
those whose installation difficulties are still fresh on their minds can 
let him know what they'd like to see included in the next version.  This 
is your opportunity to give something back to the NetBSD effort, and the 
great thing is you don't have to be a UNIX Guru to do it!

Thanks for the great job Matthew.
-bob