Bhavesh, If you have 15 gigs on that IDE drive and since IDE drive support is new, I'd stick with running NetBSD off of that external SCSI drive to be totally safe. Much safer that way. What do you think, Pickle? I don't believe Bhavesh will run into any trouble using the installer and booter from his IDE drive -- might be a better question for the NetBSD/Mac68k list to answer. I'd hate to tell anyone to "Go for it, dude!" and then have them lose 15 gigs of data because of an obscure bug no one tested but assumed wouldn't happen.
Having a few tape drives at work on our servers makes me wish I could afford that same luxury at home. I should probably start saving my money for a DDS-2 drive or a refurbed DDS-3 drive (nice and cheap DAT media). Good thing Pickle caught my goof-up about your CPU ... I just glanced through the LEM info on your Q630 and totally missed that part of the description. My bad! Cheers, Dan Willson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday, 13, 2002, at 02:10PM, MacDrivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks for the pointers Dan & Pickle! As Pickle suggested, I've got a comm >slot ethernet card and a full 68040 in the Q630. After my original posting, >I googled around a bit and found the MacBSD links and install instructions >as well. >Looks like I'm lucky with my timing as far as the IDE support goes, but I've >got an external SCSI HD just in case. I'll ask on the MaX list about >potential network speed improvements. Now I just gotta figure out where to >dump the 15 gigs of stuff while I repartition the HD for BSD. >cheers, >Bhavesh Patel -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
