Subject: Re: serial console beige G3 installation
To: Miguel Mendez <mmendez@energyhq.be>
From: John <jhu@grex.cyberspace.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/04/2006 08:12:39
You could easily get a keyboard for less than the computer (at least in 
the USA). As for serial, those can be somewhat more difficult to come by 
although the pinouts are well documented so you can probably make your 
own.

-John

On Tue, 2 May 2006, Miguel Mendez wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I've seen some cheap beige G3 PowerMacs on Ebay and will probably get
> one. The computer doesn't come with a keyboard. Apparently OFW will
> default to serial console in the absence of a keyboard. The box has
> some version of OS9 installed. What I'd like to do is netboot the box
> and install NetBSD 3.0 on it doing everything via the serial console.
>
> Does anyone have experiences on beige G3 boxen and NetBSD?
>
> Cheers.
> -- 
> Miguel Mendez	<mmendez@energyhq.be>
> http://www.energyhq.be
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