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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newshost.marcam.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!news1.digital.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!news.Stanford.EDU!heron.Stanford.EDU!yue From: yue@heron.Stanford.EDU (Kenneth C. Yue) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Some questions about NetBSD/mac68k Date: 19 Aug 1995 22:51:14 GMT Organization: Stanford University: Computer Science Department, CA USA Lines: 28 Message-ID: <415pt2$b9b@Radon.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: heron.stanford.edu I don't know if this is the right newsgroup to ask some questions on the mac68k port of NetBSD. If it is not, please excuse me and point me to the right newsgroup. I currently have a SE/30 with 5MB of RAM and a 80MB external SCSI drive. I just purchased a 365MB internal SCSI drive and plan to put aside part of this new drive for use with NetBSD. I'm also going to upgrade to 8MB of RAM. I've read the INSTALL file, and figured that I need at least 50MB (binary) + 16MB (swap) + 105MB (source) = 171MB for the NetBSD partitions. I'm using the internal monitor for video, but would consider getting a big external mono monitor to run X Windows in NetBSD. So my questions are: 1. Is there a free X Windows implementation to run on NetBSD/mac68k, like XFree86 that runs on NetBSD/i386? Or can I just get the generic X sources and compile it? Will it work? 2. If I really want to run X Windows on NetBSD/mac68k, how much more disk space should I reserve for NetBSD/mac68k in addition to the 171MB minimum? 3. If I get greedy and try to use LaTeX on NetBSD/mac68k as well, how much more disk space do I need? Do I wind up using all 365MB and leave nothing for the MacOS? Thanks in advance for any info that you can provide. Ken