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From: briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us (Allen Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Reviews Requested: NetBSD Mac68k
Date: 13 Nov 1994 01:59:43 GMT
Organization: Home, Blacksburg, Virginia
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In article <tweak-1211941742160001@net73.metronet.com>
  tweak@metronet.com (Michael Sitarzewski) writes:
>Can any of you give me some info on the ease of installation and general
>stability of this release?

Being somewhat biased, I think it's pretty easy to install ;-)
It's quite stable on some systems.   Mainly, it's pretty stable
on the stock Mac II, SE/30, or similar machine.  There are a number
of bugs, though, and limitations--like no floppy support and broken
clock r/w routines.

>it requires a 68020 w/ pmmu or does it rely on the some other mechanism?
>The reason I ask is that I have an old SE with a 25mhz '020/pmmu upgrade
>card.

It requires an '030+FPU, or '020+PMMU+FPU.  It also requires something
more than a clue about your hardware.  If I remember right, the SE is
rather different from the II-series or later macs.  I doubt very much
that it'll work.  If you are bound and determined to give it a go, you
can download the booter and the kernel, extract the kernel from its
tarred, gzipped form, and try booting it (there's an option to load the
kernel from the MacOS instead of from the BSD partition).

-allen

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