On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 schaecsn@gmx.net wrote:

> I just got a Quadra 630 and a Performa 636CD. I do understand that the
> latter is not supported by NetBSD

I thought they were the same thing. I have a 636CD that still has a
NetBSD-1.3.2 partition on it, though I don't run it in NetBSD often.
I did swap the chip for a full 68040.

> from the IDE mini HOWTO
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/portmac68k/2001/12/03/0004.html I downloaded the kernel netbsd+wdc+espfix=1.5Y.gz. Do I need
> base.tgz from exaclty netbsd-1.5Y or can I also use an elf snapshot?

Don't ever try to run a userland that's newer than the kernel.
What you might try to do, is to boot the install kernel from the elf
snapshot to see how well it groks the IDE disk.

> Sadly, I cannot even solve the first step: how do I partition my harddrive?
> all the programs mentioned in the install.html file from netbsd-1.5.2 are
> either commercial products or scsi-only.

> what I don't have to offer. The only other IDE computer is a 486 running
> linux. will the following work:
>
> - plug my mac-ide disk into my 486 and repartition it. unfortunately, fdisk
> doesn't know about the magic number of A/UX partititon. suggestions?

I don't think so. The partitioning scheme for *86 PC's is very
different than for Mac's.

> - I do still need a mac-os partition to boot from, right? via floppies I can
> reinstall mac-os
> 7.0.1 or so without problems!?

Yes. Then download unpack the Booter, copy the gzipped
netbsd-INSTALL.gz kernel into the Booter folder, and select that file
to boot from. There are still bugs in sysinstall, but it does have the
capability to create partitions as long as it recognizes the disk. The
worse that can happen is that it wipes out the Mac OS installation you
will have just made.

> Will IDE installation be fully supported in 1.6?

Hard to say. If you can identify bugs in the snapshot, those might get
fixed for 1.6. To be honest, it would make more sense to get an
installation up and running on a small SCSI drive in order to play
with the experimental IDE support. You're really reaching, expecting
to do a virgin install on IDE. Lotsa Luck!

Frederick