Hi,

> >  > Keeping a Mac OS partition isn't as bad as it sounds on a 68k Mac -- you
> >>  should be able to squeeze a decent striped-down Mac OS into a 10-20 megabyte
> >  > partition, or a healthy Mac OS onto a 50-100 megabyte partition.
>
> Woa!  You don't need anything like that if all you want is to boot.
> A "Disk Tools" floppy is 1.4MB and contains not only an adequate
> bootable OS, but copies of Disk first Aid and HD SC Formatter as
> well.  Copy it to a 2MB disk partition and add a copy of the booter
> and you've got space to spare.
>
> The reason you might want 10 MB or more is so you can keep a complete
> copy of MacOS with a copy of Netscape and an FTP client for
> diagnostic purposes.

Well, maybe that's a little conservative. The Network Boot floppy doesn't
put the machine in 32 bit mode on older machines; nor does it have a Date
& Time control panel, and if the time is not set properly, NetBSD can't
always set it automatically.

Adding a few things from 7.5.5 (which is free) makes it more useful. A 10
meg partition holds a good system, the Booter, Apple HD SC, Drive Setup,
Installer, a few other utilities (like RAMometer), and a NetBSD 1.6
installation kernel.

John Klos
Sixgirls Computing Labs