You can find specialized Classic II kernels at
http://users.erols.com/ewinkler/.  The have been tested on my Classic
II.  Make sure you have an FPU module in the expansion slot.  NetBSD
running on a mac without a hardware FPU is not all that stable in my
opinion.

Erik

Lee Reynolds wrote:

> I recently bought a Mac Classic II for five dollars at
> Goodwill.  It's complete and works fine.  It's got a
> 80 meg quantum hard drive and ten megs of memory.  I'd
> like to see about putting NetBSD on it but as I'm sure
> all of you know there is a problem with that, the
> onboard video.
>
> I tried installing 1.5alpha2 with the SBC kernel but
> it didn't really work right.  It would boot up under
> single user mode but would hang for some reason in
> multi-user mode.  I'm not sure what was happening
> there, it would get to the point where it would
> display the time and date after running the rc.d
> scripts and that would be all she wrote.  I even let
> the system sit for 30 minutes thinking it was just
> chewing on something and would eventually finish, it
> didn't.
>
> Right now I'm in the process of installing 1.3.2 with
> a kernel patched for the C-II's video.  The kernel
> came from the website of a bright japanese guy whose
> name I can't pronounce let alone remember.  I'm hoping
> it will work.  My main concern now is that he didn't
> specify that this kernel is the SBC version, which I
> need because I have a quantum hard drive in my system.
>
> So, if anyone knows where I can find an SBC kernel
> compiled/patched for the Classic II please let me
> know.  I'm not very picky at this point about which
> version of NetBSD it is for, any will do.  Also, I
> DON'T HAVE a 68882 installed in this machine, so I
> can't use a kernel which expects one.  I might be
> interested in getting a MPU if someone knows where I
> can buy a module for this unit.
>
> Thanks,
> Lee Reynolds
>
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