Subject: Re: 7200 Netbsd / Linux
To: Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu>
From: William Duke <wduke@cogeco.ca>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/15/2005 13:59:40
That's too bad. I was thinking that a 7200/90 would make an excellent X
terminal once a cheap PC 100Mb ethernet card was added.
> From: Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu>
> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:10:56 -0500
> To: NetBSD macppc <port-macppc@NetBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: 7200 Netbsd / Linux
>
>
> The last time I tried, ofwboot.xcf choked during loading. This may be
> fixed in current or it may have been that it only had 16MB of RAM; I
> tossed my 7200 a few months ago though.
>
> On Nov 15, 2005, at 5:03 AM, William Duke wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering if anybody has made any progress on adding 601
>> support to the
>> PPC port of NetBSD?
>>
>> Reason I ask is simple, I want to install NetBSD on my PM7200/90. I
>> installed Debian Linux on the 7200 last night, and was immediately
>> reminded
>> of why I like NetBSD so much better.
>>
>> Anyway, anybody know if there's been any progress on the 601
>> front? Or, is
>> anybody even working on bringing 601 support to NetBSD? I
>> searched Google
>> a couple of nights ago and found that there had been a couple of
>> people
>> working on adding 601 support in the past, but I can't find any
>> recent info.
>>
>> Man, I'd really prefer to not have to use Linux. But...
>>
>>
>> !DSPAM:4379b287163952487476057!
>