mmm, I have a Netpower 100 (acer pica 61?) that I have not been able to
get running w/netbsd arc-port. Does anyone have any ideas? I am able to boot
NT3.51 and 4.0/2000 with no problem. TIA

Donovan

On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> : wow.  i thought this thread had been forgotten about.  thanks for the reply
> : so, aside from NT v3.51, what other OS can you run on this platform?
> : well, can you do me a favor and let me know if you can get it to work or
> : NetBSD comes out with a working model?
>
> OpenBSD 2.4 or so still runs on the machine :-).  I have a Deskstation
> rPC44, iirc.  They only ever produced a few models.  We don't support
> the cool Rapture line (of which I've never actually seen any extant
> models.  The Deskstaiton Tyne likely is in a similar position as the
> rPC44, but may need one or two addition DMA tweaks since the Tyne can
> only DMA to a small area of special, fast SRAM.
>
> My biggest problem is that I cannot boot from cdrom.  Well, I cannot
> make cdroms with mkisofs that the machine will recognize as legit.  So
> I have to do strange things with hard drives so that I can boot off of
> them.  I wish I had two ZIP drives...  Hmm, maybe now that they are
> inexpensive, I should try this path.
>
> I'm not sure that I can act as a reliable notification service.
> However, if you subscribe to port-arc, I'd certainly announce anything
> like this there.
>
> Warner
>