Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:

> I figure most of us started with minix/pc532 and may
> still have the original install fs.
> 
> Now, don't laugh. I do turn my pc532 on from time to time.
> I do run NetBSD on it now. However, I always had that good
> old minix stuff on the disk. However, I just managed to
> blow it away.

Yep, I started that way too.  Sorry I can't help more than just
pulling the Mac Minix sources off floppies though.  I always had
problems with Minix pipes not transfering all the data coming out
of compress into tar, and was glad that NetBSD didn't suffer from
that disability.

My pc532 is used a bit more than yours though.  I'm too cheap to
put an Ethernet card into my 68K Mac, so I use the pc532 as my
modem server and PPP network router, since it has almost as many
serial ports as all my other machines combined!  I suppose I should
swap the disks on my pc532 and Sparcstation-LX, but the LX makes
a pretty good console and the pc532 is too much fun to leave off
for months at a time, even though it probably makes more sense to
do so...

> [deleted]

> More to the group's topic, is there any plan to have
> NetBSD 1.3.3 binaries on the distro? 1.3.2 had a /pc532
> directory, but it was always unreadable (why?).

I think Matthias and Phil can answer that better than I, but I
think Matthias is working on the 1.3.3 distribution.  As for 1.3.2,
I built it, and sent to Phil, since he lost a disk and couldn't do
it.  I don't know why it's never had the permission made world
readable.  Thinking about it the last few days though, I'm not
totally sure that it is exportable, and that might be part of the
problem, I don't know.

To celebrate the arrival of my account on cvs.netbsd.org being
created (and the sleepless nights caused by the arrival of my second
daughter on Dec 23)  I've been trying to build a -current snapshot,
but not having much luck on that one.  Right now, it's ld.aout_so
and some stuff with cache invalidation that I'm really out of my
league on. I also noticed that we STILL need to fix bind defining
T_SLAVE in it's grammer and pulling in trap.h also.  I can fix that
one, but probably not the right way.  I need to look at it again,
but as I remember, it looked pretty simple when I was building it
a month ago...

Jon Buller  <jonb@metronet.com> and now <jonb@netbsd.org> too!