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From: briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us (Allen Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help Installing 68k NetBSD on Mac II
Date: 14 Jul 1995 11:47:41 GMT
Organization: Home, Blacksburg, Virginia
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In article <twei-0507951145210001@twei.utmem.edu>,
Ted Wei, Jr. <twei@mail.eye.utmem.edu> wrote:
>"You need a PMMU or a 68030 or above to run this"  "Orange Whip"
>
>I have a MAC II with an 80MB HD, 2MB partitioned for MAC o/S, the rest an
>A/UX partition.  Does that mean I can't run NetBSD on this machine?

You are doing nothing wrong except overlooking the error message and the
hardware requirements...  ;-)

The 68020 has no inherent facilities for paged memory management.
NetBSD needs to have a PMMU (68851) with the 68020.  The 68030 and
68040 have that functionality built-in (in slightly different ways).

So, you need to pick up a PMMU to replace the HMMU that Apple has
filling the slot, or you need to get a 68030 upgrade (an accelerator
(which may not work under NetBSD--some successes have been noted)
or a IIx upgrade (which will also give you the 1.4MB floppy support
on the motherboard and ROMs that will allow you to use more memory,
I think)).

-allen

-- 
Allen Briggs - end killing - allen.briggs@bev.net ** MacBSD == NetBSD/mac68k **
   Where does all my time go?  <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">Guess.</a>