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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!server1.netnews.ja.net!warwick!not-for-mail From: esuve@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr D R Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Netbsd in ZIP Date: 19 May 1997 12:35:25 +0100 Organization: University of Warwick, UK Lines: 33 Message-ID: <5lpdtt$t7e@lupin.csv.warwick.ac.uk> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970502075553.18767B-100000@next1> <01bc6349$8a8ba020$fee093cf@worldnet.worldnet.att.net> <5lnkog$tif$1@news.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lupin-fddi.csv.warwick.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5969 In article <5lnkog$tif$1@news.iastate.edu>, tracy@munchkin.cnde.iastate.edu (Tracy J. Di Marco White) writes: >J.C. Archambeau <n-xiv@worldnet.att.net> wrote: >}York Block <yblock@next.mc.maricopa.edu> wrote: > >}> Hi, I am totally new here......I would like too install netbsd on my Zip >}> disk an use it with my mac LCIII. Can I do that?? > >}Yes, you could. But it will be a very tight fit. A full install of *BSD >}is on the order of over 500 Mb. >}You'd have to cannibalize the installation to the minimal. Another hard >}disk or a Nomai MCD 540, Iomega Jaz or SyJet would be in order if you need >}to install *BSD on removable media. > >Is it really that much larger on a mac than it is on the i386 port? >We obviously have different definitions of a "full" install. > I have installed a working NetBSD system onto a Mac HD in less than 96meg. I only use the system to complete assignments at uni. but in that respect it has so far been very useful. I have the full binary distribution but no sources. You will be able to USE the system. You will not be able to develop it much. Hope this helps. Cheers Daniel --XX-- D.R.Thompson@warwick.ac.uk, Computer Systems Enginneering. -- Daniel --XX--