On Feb 14, 2004, at 10:07 am, Kazuyuki Inanaga wrote:

> You have a nice machine !

Yes. It is beautiful, even if it currently lacks a rear I/O door - 
might be a bit of a dust trap!

> I think you know the answer already.
> If your nice machine was mine :), I would do;
>
> 1. read INSTALL.txt again

What do you mean 'Again'? ;-)

> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6.1/mac68k/INSTALL.txt
>      "Installing the NetBSD System (Sysinst Method).................15"
>      "Installing the NetBSD System (Traditional Method).............23"

I now have a copy of this file on the desktop on my G3 :)

> 2. install MacOS 7.5.5
>  http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html
>
> 3. make Partitions 4GB HDD like this;
> 	/
> 	swap (128MB)
> 	/usr
> 	/var
> 	/tmp
> 	/home
> 	HFS

Any suggestions on sizes for the partitions? I don't know what 
generally takes up the most space. I'm guessing / (root), /usr (the 
user programs store?) and /home (user home filestores) will take up a 
lot of space, while the /var (logs & settings?) and /tmp (temporary 
storage) are not going to be so big...?

> Why do you choose Traditional Method?
> (I prefer Sysinst Method because it's easy and faster.)

I hadn't explored SYSINST but I won't use Installer again now I have 
tried it!!

> If your Mystic didn't have a NIC, I'm sure that one of
> APPLE ETHERNET CS TWISTED-PAIR CARD 820-0607-A
> APPLE ETHERNET LC TWISTED-PAIR CARD 820-0532-B*
> card works fine on Mystic/NetBSD. Needless to say? Maybe :)

Has one of those Comm Slot cards right in the slot. I never install 
NetBSD on a machine without a NIC, it's pointless :-)

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