I had never thought about using MS-DOS for this, but, of course, it
works.  I end up using some other system and nfs for installs and I
use MacOS only to boot the mac68k systems.

cheers

bruce


On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:35:04AM +0200, GERARDOALVAREZ@telefonica.net wrote:
> Really? Thanks!
> Or is there another partition format that can be used to share 
> documents (mountable read/write) between the Mac OS and the BSD OSs? 
> Maybe a CD-ROM, although I don´t have an external SCSI unit.
> I am using the msdos partition system because it seems a pretty 
> straigthforward way to go, but I am open to suggestions...
> 
> 
> ----- Mensaje Original -----
> De: "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
> Fecha: Jueves, Mayo 20, 2004 10:34 am
> Asunto: Re: Softfloat build of Beta 2.0 from 16/5/2004
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > No, the INST030FPE kernel does not have MSDOS enabled.  I'll build one
> > for you though...
> > 
> > cheers
> > 
> > bruce
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:52:38PM +0200, Gerardo Alvarez wrote:
> > > The install kernel boots OK, partitions OK (it used to hang 
> > there, 
> > > possibly because of the FPE thing). Great ;-)
> > > 
> > > But then mount_msdos /dev/wd0e /mnt2 gives an "operation not 
> > supported 
> > > by device" error which I didn´t have in 1.6.2.
> > > 
> > > I have a big IDE disk in the PB150, with a 125 MB DOS partition, 
> > which 
> > > I mount in Mac OS and copy all the distribution sets there, and 
> > then I 
> > > mount later in BSD to grab that distribution for the installer.
> > > 
> > > Does the install kernel (030FPE) support MSDOS partition mounting?
> > > 
> > > If not, I am a bit out of luck, since I can´t access the 
> > distribution 
> > > sets any other way (the Mac OS installer does not "see" HFS 
> > partitions 
> > > right?)
> > > 
> > > Regards
> > > 
> > > El 19/05/2004, a las 16:22, Bruce ONeel escribió:
> > > 
> > > >Hi,
> > > >
> > > >It *should* work...
> > > >
> > > >Thanks!
> > > >
> > > >cheers
> > > >
> > > >bruce
> > > >
> > > >Gerardo Alvarez <gerardoalvarez@telefonica.net> wrote:
> > > >>Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 19:22:19 +0200
> > > >>From: Gerardo Alvarez <gerardoalvarez@telefonica.net>
> > > >>Subject: Re: Softfloat build of Beta 2.0 from 16/5/2004
> > > >>To: "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
> > > >>Cc: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
> > > >>content-length: 996
> > > >>
> > > >>Should I give it a shot with my Powerbook 150?
> > > >>It is a 60830 no FPU with 24 Mb RAM
> > > >>I will try right away
> > > >>Regards
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>El 18/05/2004, a las 11:22, Bruce O'Neel escribi„:
> > > >>
> > > >>>Hi,
> > > >>>
> > > >>>The above build from the tar files is at
> > > >>>
> > > >>>ftp://lain.ziaspace.com/pub/NetBSD/m68k/NetBSD-release-2.0-
> > mac-
> > > >>>softfloat
> > > >>>
> > > >>>Per usual it has been tested by loading on two different 
> > Powerbook> >>>540c machines.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>Btw, the list has been very quiet.  Has anyone tried either the
> > > >>>regular builds or the softfloat builds?  The time to test is 
> > now and
> > > >>>not 2 days after the release announcement for 2.0 :-) For 
> > what it's
> > > >>>worth it seems stable so I don't think you'd be risking much to
> > > >>>upgrade.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>The most recent official build is (I believe) at:
> > > >>>
> > > >>>ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-2-0/200405100000/
> > > >>>mac68k/
> > > >>>
> > > >>>Thanks again to John Klos for CPU, diskspace, and network 
> > bandwith.> >>>
> > > >>>cheers
> > > >>>
> > > >>>bruce
> > > >>>-- 
> > > >>>edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org
> > > >>>SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
> > > >>>
> > > >
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org
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> > 
> 
> 

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