Subject: Re: NetBSD/68k Suggestion (put it on a CD)
To: Victor Jimenez <vjimenez@awod.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/09/1996 18:27:16
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has the 1.1 release of NetBSD/68k available on a
> CD-ROM that they are selling. If not, has anyone thought about putting
> NetBSD on a CD-ROM? You could include the complete source, the installation
> notes, all the files needed to make a installation (all the .tar's), maybe
> Xwindows and anything else you can stuff on a CD-ROM. It probably would be
> possible to burn part of the CD-ROM as a Unix partition and have Netbsd
> pre-installed.
> 
> If anyone was thinking about doing this or would do it, I am sure there are
> a few people who would be willing to pay to get the source and netbsd/68k
> on a cd-rom.

Some people have done this, and also people who have CD ROM writers on
current-users have offered to write CD's for a nominal fee (barely
covering media cost and labor at minimum wage).

The problem for the mac68k port is that we're making such improvements
with time that even 1.1 is not the optimal source base to use. Floating
point emmulation didn't make it into 1.1, and there were a number
of bugs w/ the 1.1 kernel which have been fixed (like serial console
not working (mea culpa), interrupt service levels set up wrong, and some
SCSI bugs). Direct adb support seems close to being in the tree (or might
even be; I'm not sup'ing at the moment).

> BTW, Does the 1.1 release work correctly with a Macintosh IIsi with a 50mhz
> Daystar accelerator (with FPU) ? Thanks.

I think so, though am not sure. The accelerator is still an 030?

Take care,

Bill