Subject: Screenless Performa575 install probs.
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Allan Fields <afields@hotmail.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/13/1997 14:24:41
I have a screenless ( --flybacks dead) Performa 575 that I wish to install
NetBSD on. I am having trouble installing the software since in order to
install it, you must be able to see what you are doing. I have tried moving the
mouse, and guessing where it will land -- but I just can't get it down to the
point where installation would be feasible. Anyone got any idea how I can go
about installing NetBSD on this sucker? Are there text based installation or
partitioning utilities? And if so will they run over a serial port? If this
where a sun, I would just attach a serial terminal to it, and start the
installation. I have a feeling this hardware is quite a bit different -- prove
me wrong.
By the way, unfortunately this is the *only* mac I have access to, besides
a SE. :( If I had access to a LC or something like that, I wouldn't have posted
this message. I have tried to install the stuff from the SE, but it locks-up
when I run the install util. The SE is not supported, is it?
Thanx for your time,
Allan Fields (new to list),
afields@hotmail.com,
bort@earthling.net
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