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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!uhog.mit.edu!news.intercon.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!grantham From: grantham@netcom.com (Brad 'Savory Caramel Coating' Grantham) Subject: Re: BSD for the Macintosh Message-ID: <granthamCHnGn6.3AF@netcom.com> Summary: NetBSD/Mac 0.0 alpha available Organization: The home of NetBSD for the 8086. Come home to 16 bits! References: <2dj61n$fhj@panix.com> <2dlpoi$r1r@u.cc.utah.edu> Distribution: world Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 05:30:40 GMT Lines: 48 In article <2dlpoi$r1r@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >In article <2dj61n$fhj@panix.com> davidtay@panix.com (David Tay) writes: >>Is there a version of BSD that will run on a Macintosh? I have a Mac IIcx >>and am finally making the move to a more challenging operating system. There is a port of NetBSD 0.8 to the Macintosh, 'NetBSD/Mac68K,' available on sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu:/pub/NetBSD/mac, and also on hulk.sfsu.edu:/pub/MacBSD.ALPHA. You'll find most of what you need to install it there. There are also a pair of mailing lists, 'macbsd-general' and 'macbsd-development' on sun-lamp. To subscribe, send mail to 'majordomo@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu' with the *body* of the message containing "subscribe <listname>". Please send mail to "alice@csugrad.cs.vt.edu" if you have any trouble. Send mail to 'majordomo' with the body "help" for more options. >As of last I was aware, "some Mac's" meant 68030 with math coprocesser >and work was in progress on the 68040, which is apparently missing some >MMU instructions that the 030 has. NetBSD/Mac68K (Jeez, I guess we should go back to calling it 'MacBSD' for short) is only known to work on these Macs, with FPUs: II (with PMMU), IIx, IIcx, SE/30 Your machine should work fine, as long as you don't have anything WeIrD in it, like a second SCSI card, or an Apple II adapter card. Please mail your experiences (good, bad, ugly, did your monitor spin around spewing pea soup) to "macbsd-general@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu". >Your mileage may vary, [...] The Alice Group is deep in development right now, so the FTP directories are getting a little cluttered, but the README and the FAQ are still valid. It may not be as powerful as you'd like, but it certainly is challenging. If anyone who knows better wants to correct anything I've said, please do! (I got four hours of sleep last night (again), and I'm beginning to hallucinate that my Mac is a talking roach with a keyboard.) -Brad -- Brad Grantham, grantham@netcom.com 11 0010010000111111011010101 - It's as easy as pie. Ask me about NetBSD/HP-48! Pinniped-O-Rama, discount seal supplies! Oort, oort!