Subject: Re: 605-475 boot troubles
To: john <webmaster@indra.seanet.com>
From: John Ostrowick <jon@macaroni.cs.wits.ac.za>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/04/1996 07:32:12
i've had precisely the same problems with *my* 475.
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John Ostrowick
Computer Science Department, University of the Witwatersrand
1 Jan Smuts Ave, Johannesburg, South Africa. 1st Floor, Senate House 1012
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On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, john wrote:
> First off, even if I get this 680LC040 machine to boot, will it be fully
> functional? I installed the recent tarballs from the eskimo.copy of
> ftp.macbsd.com, installed some libm's that steve had (compiled for no fpu
> macs).. and tried to boot it. It runs through the first intial set of
> xxxxx+xxxxxx+xxxxxx, etc and then whips through the extra debugging info,
> flips to a new screen which starts with (mapping whatever to something or
> other) and hangs there. (Sorry about the vague info... I am not at the
> performa 475 now..).
>
> In short, is this endevour a lost cause at this point? My se/30 works great
> (thanks to everyone who helped, especially with ppp and dt.)
>
> And, what is the fastest mac that will run macBSD in a fully functional way
> (I am building a webserver to hook to a T-1).
>
> john
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