Sorry, I can't help you with the Storm Surge or the S900; I have no
practical experience with or knowledge of them.

I have some Ubuntu CD's on order as well.  I agree with you, BSD is
preferred over Linux, but on machines that won't boot or run BSD, Linux is
the only way to go.  Well, there's A/UX for a few select 68k machines as
well. ;)


> From: D=F6m=F6t=F6r Guly=E1s <dog@dog4.dyndns.org>
> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:57:26 +0100
> To: William Duke <wduke@cogeco.ca>
> Cc: port-macppc@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Unofficial macppc 2.1 ISO for old world machines
>=20
> The machine in question is a Storm Surge, iirc, a mac clone with a
> umax S900 "tsunami" mobo, dual CPU capable.
>=20
> The official 2.1 CD doesnt even start booting, the inofficial one
> starts loading, then aborts with a default catch, code=3DFFF00300. It
> tried messing with the real-base and load-base vars, no change.
>=20
> The floppy version seems to boot more reliably, if only i could find
> another intact floppy for the 2nd disk. oh well, i am trying ubuntu
> linux right now, it's pretty much the last one left... though i'd
> still prefer netbsd if it'd work.
>=20
> Cheers,
>=20
> - DoG
>=20
>=20
> On 19.11.2005, at 15:05, William Duke wrote:
>=20
>> What is it that you're trying to install on?  I have NetBSD running
>> on a
>> PM7300/200 and Linux running on a PM7200/90, and both work fine.
>> I'm having
>> a bit of trouble getting the X server on the Linux box running, but
>> that's
>> due to my unfamiliarity with Linux.   Once I do some homework and
>> configure
>> my Linux box properly, I don't expect I'll have any further
>> problems with
>> the X server.
>>=20
>> NetBSD is a breeze to install and get working.  I've never seen a
>> Unix that
>> is any easier.  I did have some early problems with sysinst and the
>> builtin
>> mc0 driver, but once I stuck another nic in the pci slot, I had no
>> further
>> network problems.
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>>> From: D=F6m=F6t=F6r Guly=E1s <dog@dog4.dyndns.org>
>>> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 13:19:17 +0100
>>> To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
>>> Cc: port-macppc@NetBSD.org
>>> Subject: Re: Unofficial macppc 2.1 ISO for old world machines
>>>=20
>>> Can you elaborate on how you did it? In the last few days, I tried
>>> various flavours of linux, too, and none are working. There must be
>>> some magic trick I am missing :)
>>>=20
>>> TIA,
>>>=20
>>> - DoG
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> On 18.11.2005, at 23:29, Michael wrote:
>>>=20
>>>> Hello,
>>>>=20
>>>>> i too am having a MAJOR headache booting my beige g3!
>>>>=20
>>>> I tried the 2.1 iso on my S900 - booted without problems. Didn't
>>>> set any
>>>> *-BASE variables though.
>>>>=20
>>>> have fun
>>>> Michael
>>>=20
>>=20
>=20