[juneau-lug] Re: NetBSD



On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Justin Burket wrote:

>
> I donwnloaded the OpenBSD 3.2 directory for macPowerPc last night and I
> expect I will have a Cd burned today.  I'm toying with the idea of doing a
> backup of this machine and having a dual boot of OpenBSD/OS-X.  It would
> be nice to have OpenBSD up and running as OS-X dosen't support things like
> changing your MAC address.
>

For OpenBSD running on Macs, you're best off with a newer candy colored
Mac or an old 680x0 Mac like a Quadra.  (Not a 68LC0x0 though.)

I think as long as your Mac PPC runs OS-X you're fine, but the OpenBSD Mac
PPC port doesn't support old-world Macs. So most beige PowerPCs are not
supported, including Jacob's All-in-one or the Motorola Starmax box. We're
stuck with NetBSD or Linux.

I've ended up putting Debian on all of my non-i386 hardware, as it
supports almost as many architectures as NetBSD, including anything
that I'm likely to get my hands on.  This is a good excuse to try out
NetBSD a little more than I have in the past.

Cheers,

James




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