Subject: Re: Screenless Performa575 install probs.
To: Allan Fields <afields@hotmail.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/13/1997 14:34:52
Maybe there's a netbsd/mac68k user nearby who can build a disk
for you - where are you located?
David/abs abs@anim.dreamworks.com
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On Tue, 13 May 1997, Allan Fields wrote:
> 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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