At 2:30 PM 98.10.16, Colin Wood wrote:
> at one point, someone had found a 1.3.2 kernel which did support the
> classic II.  unfortunately, i absolutely cannot find my pointer to this
> kernel.  perhaps you can search the mailing list archives for this kernel.
> i know the site was somewhere in japan.....

Yes, it existes on the following page by Noriaki Yamada:

http://member.nifty.ne.jp/nyamada/

You can download his customized kernels for Classic II.

And for this issue of using MacBSD on Classic II and N.Yamada's kernels,
you should check the detailed reports by Andrew Foakes:

http://www.foakes.demon.co.uk/NetBSD.html


As for myself, I once have succeeded in booting NetBSD1.3.2 on my Classic
II (4MB RAM) using the kernels above. I was able to boot into NetBSD, did
usual command works for some time, could even communicate with another
NetBSD on my IIci, but it was - as Collin says - "painfully slow". Besides,
I got a bunch of disk errors under the NetBSD (while no errors if used
under MacOS). I guessed it might be because of the memory shortage, FPU
simulation (I had no hardware FPU), or something wrong with my hard disk
formatting (the HD was Apple 160MB internal disk, which originally came
with LC475).


Takashi Ikemi
ikemi@xa2.so-net.ne.jp