Why do you need a serial console?
I have a PB 180 running NetBSD 1.5.3 without any problem.
I think that you only need more ram... I have 14Mb.
NetBSD will work OK in that machine.
To install NetBSD, you can Install via floppy drive, like I did, but It t=
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a lot of time and patience...

Bye,
Rafael Diniz

Em Quarta 13 Novembro 2002 15:28, Fionn Cleary escreveu:
> Hi I was given a powerbook 160 and I'm interested in setting up netbsd
> on it. From what i can gather, on 68030 processors, you need a serial
> console to connect to netbsd. Has anyone set up netbsd on one of these
> machines? The machine has 4mb ram and a 130 mb hard disk. The only
> io device thats on the machine is the floppy drive; I have no scsi
> cdroms or the like.

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