Re: Which BSD?

From: David Douthitt (ssrat_at_mailbag.com)
Date: 11/11/03

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    On 7 Nov 2003 20:35:10 GMT, Rudolf Polzer
    <denshimeiru-sapmctacher@durchnull.de> wrote:

    >Scripsit ille »David Douthitt« <ssrat@mailbag.com>:

    >> I'm not sure about NetBSD, but installing OpenBSD/mac68k was certainly
    >> much similar to the described Gentoo install: format the drives
    >> yourself, mkfs them, copy and undo the tarballs into the right
    >> directories, then start the system up to finish configuring....
    >
    >(and probably installing a boot loader in between)

    Actually not. Not really.

    For OpenBSD/mac68k (and indeed, most any mac68k port) you need MacOS
    to boot with, then a boot-time extension allows you to boot into Linux
    or BSD. This is even true for "Old World" macppc - but not "New
    World" macppc....

    But anyway...

    David Douthitt (david@douthitt.net)
    UNIX System Administrator
    HP-UX, Unixware, Linux
    Linux+, LPIC-1

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