On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Carolyn Jane Gillis wrote:

> 
> 
> itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> > 
> > >Is anyone trying to get NetBSD up on an Mac 6100/66 PPC? Is the problem the 601 chip, or
> > >the small hard drive, or the lack of a CD Rom drive? It would be a shame a to throw away
> > >or sell my old Mac 6100, if all it took was patience to be able to be able to dedicate it
> > >to Net BSD or Linux.
> > 
> >         hello, from what I understand from
> >         http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html,
> >         6100 is not supported because of boot ROM difference (no open firmware).
> > 
> >         btw, the best place for this question is port-macppc@netbsd.org.
> >         you may want to ask again there.

Well, te answer is correct, mainly b/c of the lack of open firmware.
MkLinux works fine on them, though, and has for... over four years now.
;-)


David

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