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#! rnews 2472 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Xref: sserve comp.unix.aux:18293 comp.unix.bsd:16682 comp.sys.mac.system:88677 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!Belgium.EU.net!chaos.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be!aix1.segi.ulg.ac.be!ail3.montefiore.ulg.ac.be!korthoud From: korthoud@montefiore.ulg.ac.be (Didier Korthoudt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: MacBSD question... Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 11:34:27 Organization: Université de Liège Lines: 44 Message-ID: <1995Jul14.113427@ail3.montefiore.ulg.ac.be> References: <trevor-1407950008080001@c18.globalvision.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ail3.montefiore.ulg.ac.be X-newsreader: xrn 7.03 In article <trevor-1407950008080001@c18.globalvision.net>, trevor@globalvision.net (Trevor Zion Bauknight) writes: > I managed to download the whole bit, reformat & repartition my hard drive > (not without difficulty), make the MacBSD filesystem, install all the > files on my drive and build the devices. Now. > > I have a IIvx, and, yes, I noticed that part about "will boot and are > accessible from a serial terminal or SLIP". I do not, however, have > access to a cheap serial terminal (how I wish I still had my old Televideo > CP/M machine!) and I'm wondering if there's any hope. Has anyone gotten > MacBSD working via an onscreen console on the IIvx? Yes, I did try > booting it in the normal, single user fashion but without selecting the > serial terminal radio button. It tried to boot, showed me some numbers > and then said "So I sez to him...[something about a serial terminal > blocked from my memory]." > > And BTW: What's so all-fired odd about IIvx's that they seem to be the > only '030 machine excluded from running several funky programs? Is it the > internal video? WHAT?! Hi Trevor, I've tried past week end to install MacBSD 1.0 on various Macs and I must admit that this was a complete waste of time ! As a UNIX software developper, I wished I could find some decent Mac version. By the way, Linux for the Mac is nowhere (I'm wondering if it could ship one day...), and the only other share/free-ware alternative is MacBSD. We've tried to put it on a IIci, IIcx with no results other than the crash you mention. We've also tried on a PM9500 which gives better results but always crashes... My only hope is that someone can boost Linux for Mac development. Best regards, Didier Korthoudt Computer Science Dept. University of Liege Belgium - Europe