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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!mm-mac19.mse.uiuc.edu!user From: ahall@uiuc.edu (Allen Hall) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: What is the current status of NetBSD on 68k Mac? (and more...) Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 15:15:47 -0500 Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 58 Message-ID: <ahall-0606961515470001@mm-mac19.mse.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mm-mac19.mse.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.2.0b4 Hello everyone, I first want to thank everyone who contacted me about linux on the 68k... I'm not sure if it was this group or another, but thanks anyways. Secondly, the main reason for this post, is that I am learning tons about BSD right now, and am pretty much a stupid fool when it comes to netBSD at the moment. I have a couple questions that I would love to have your comments and suggestions on. I have the following system configuration: Performa636CD which has: 250 Meg internal IDE drive (only 5 megs free right now... but I can fix that) External SCSI Zip removable media drive 20 Meg RAM Valkyre?? Video Card SCSI Sony Internal CDRom 68LC040 Motorola Processor I am currently running MacOS 7.5.3. I am interested in the ability to choose operating systems at boot time (MacOS/NetBSD) [in other words, I don't want to give up my MacOS yet]. My questions are as follows: Can I run X11R6 with the current version of NetBSD? I have been told I need ADB ontop of my machine... will that run X windows (which I suppose is the same as X11R6 right?). Does the current version of ADB support Color X Windows? Or is it limited to like 1bit? Is there an IDE version being worked on at the moment? Also, I would love to hear of any of the current work on NetBSD which may concern my ability to run X windows or motif or something like this on my machine. Any suggestions/comments/concerns are always welcome!! Thank you very much for reading and reply to this message. Please reply via e-mail so that I can be sure to receive your comments! Thanks again, Allen Hall --- ahall@uiuc.edu -- Polymer Group Graduate Research Assistant Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign