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From: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
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Subject: Re: NetBSD on a IIci: booting help needed
To: vankirk@toto.csustan.edu (Gary Vankirk)
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 05:43:41 -0600 (CST)
Cc: port-mac68k-outgoing@netbsd.org
In-Reply-To: <9610260744.AA03284@toto.csustan.edu> from "Gary Vankirk" at Oct 26, 96 00:44:12 am
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> Thanks to all for the responses. After Bob Nestor's original reply I looked
> around a bit and then tried starting over, this time while watching it all.
> I noticed an "invalid tar file" error, so apparently it could not extract
> some stuff (even though it continued with other modules). I've downloaded
> everything again and am starting over.

Cool.  Good luck on getting this to work.  (Don't worry, it's not too 
hard as long as everything installs properly ;-)

> I dropped a note to Bob and he responded that since this is my first
> attempt at setting up a UNIX machine (of any type) I should go with a
> single root/usr partition. He also kindly included some other helpful
> information. (Thanks, Bob)

That's probably a good idea (it's certainly easier to handle.

> I also picked up O'Reilly's "Essential System Administration", so I'll be
> looking in there before buggin' you guys. (Though after looking at it, I'm
> not sure how much help it will be. Can anyone recommend anything else?). I
> did notice in it that "init" is a program, so I pulled up the man pages and
> now know a _little_ bit more.

Try _UNIX_System_Administration_Handbook_ by Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass, and 
Garth (i.e. the Red Book).  It's wonderful!

> On other notes: is this list digested? Any possibility of NetBSD running on
> an accelerated Classic?. I picked up a 40mhz board (030) for $99 and it
> screams compared to the IIci (no PMMU in it, though).

I don't know if the list is "digested" but it is archived, and you can 
ftp the archives from ftp.netbsd.org.   With an '030, the PMMU is built 
in, so no worry there.  I'd suggest making a test first:  simply boot 
from a kernel in the MacOS, no need to install the whole system to simply 
see if it will boot or not.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant                                        Rice University
Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX