At 7:17 PM +0100 2/13/01, Hans-Christian Becker wrote:
>Dear all,
>I have a few questions pertaining to NetBSD on my PB 3400.
>1. We _do_ recognize Apple partition maps nowadays, don't we, so I could
>convert an unused 5G HFS+ partition to something sysinst can understand
>_without_ destroying the other HFS+ partitions?

Yes, but. . .

Booting is a problem for non-OF3 machines with Apple partition maps. 
Also sysinst will run installboot which will destroy the Apple 
partition map if you let it.  I suggest you do the install by hand 
(mkfs, tar zxvpf, and edit fstab & friends, etc.).  There is an iBook 
setup URL you can get from the list archive that should describe the 
process.  Basically you put ofwboot.xcf on a HFS disk partition and 
then point it at the NetBSD partition.

>2. What choices are there for three-button mice? I don't have a USB card.

Maybe look at the mac68k FAQ for a starting point?  Not sure how much 
of the special mouse support was carried over.  Maybe none.  |-(


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