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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!briggs From: briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us (Allen Briggs) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Trouble Booting a IIsi Date: 14 Dec 1995 14:36:47 GMT Organization: Home, Blacksburg, Virginia Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4apcpv$npf@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <suk-0912951251360001@cola66.scsn.net> <suk-0912951910510001@cola61.scsn.net> <30D0D16B.583D@gamgee.cc.flinders.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us NNTP-Posting-User: briggs In article <30D0D16B.583D@gamgee.cc.flinders.edu.au>, Paul Callaghan <pmpdc@gamgee.cc.flinders.edu.au> wrote: > Would a IIsi with 5M + 200M HD (without FPU) devoted to MacBSD be a >usable system? For what? 5M is a bit tight on RAM for NetBSD--it swaps at the drop of a hat, but it's usable. If you're doing much compiling at all, or if you want to run X, you'll want more RAM. >I'd like to run unix, but I still need MacOS. Is it possible >to choose which OS to start up on, or is MacBSD always the default. NetBSD boots from a MacOS application. You can't go straight into NetBSD, but you can configure the booter to be a startup application and configure it to auto-boot. I've done that on my IIcx and have just a minimal MacOS partition. >Also, is there a X window system available (does it cope with 8M of RAM)? It will cope with 8M of RAM. I haven't tried running it in 8, though. Currently, only 1-bit (monochrome) will work. -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>