Subject: 1.4.2_ALPHA on 8500/150
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/10/2000 03:10:03
My attempt to make 1.4.2_ALPHA go on a PowerMac 8500/150 has so far 
resulted in:

	DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00600

after suntar sucessfully put boot.fs onto a floppy and I told OFW to 
"boot fd:0". I'm going to keep going backwards until I find one that 
works.

However, I want to say that our installation documentation for this 
port is completely unacceptable. It is spread all over the place, and 
it takes perseverence to find all the information need to make NetBSD 
work. We have the potential here to have the second most widely used 
NetBSD port after i386, if we just get our act together. My attempt 
to make an 8500 go is in part to lend my efforts to that goal; it's 
gonna be a build system when I'm done.

We've got a ways to go, though.

	somewhat frustrated,

	Erik <fair@clock.org>