Marco van de Voort wrote:
Whats the problem with the 840? I'll take a guess and say the ethernet with netbsd?
Getting MacOS on it. But I suspect hardware trouble. I get sad macs 3 out
of 4 times, or the screen clears, but the mouse can't move.
Have you tried a boot floppy? I know its a weak question. Sad mac may mean a few things. The way I test is to pull everything, remove the scsi data cables and power to the drives will leaving only the floppy to boot from a floppy then move from there. The 840 should have 8mb ram and 1mb vram onboard.
http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/bootdisks.html
While the ethernet is unsupported on the site, it is in fact supported. The NetBSD site is terribly old, but development did move on.
There is even experimental DMA support, which really would boost disc-throughput. And that's what I need, since I mainly use it for compiling/testing.
The NetBSD page is only 5 years old. ;) Thanks for the info, anything that speeds up the disk access would be a much needed bonus.
You might try the Max list for either if you need pointers. Helpful but quite bunch over there.
The problem is that I just got the thing, and am not entirely sure about the components I put in either. So there are simply too many variables. I'll try to get in touch with some 68k or mac user around here. (Eindhoven, NL), which would eliminate the disc problem.
Sorry, bit far.
(Btw Did somebody experiment with dd'ing Mac HDs?
Whats dd'ing?
So - setting up a working 7.x MacOs. - dd it to an image on a PC. - dd it back to a different HD - put it back in the vintage mac.
Disk duplicating?
There is little trouble I can find in copying the entire mac partition over to a pc using Pcmaclan and then copying it back again to a initalized mac partition, I suspect basislisk would treat this in much the same way.
I've fould basilisk to be very useful for sending files such as stuffit across to pc users with limited ways of getting around stuffit problem. provided the is a ethernet connection between the two machines. Basilisks .hfv files are good for transport and can be open with HFVexplorer if thats needed.
Mac boot floppies usually include appletalk so connecting to either basilisk or Pcmaclan is easy. If the hard drive is initialized you should be able to copy the contents back across and the boot from that drive on the mac.
I'll be doing more with this, please treat the above with caution as it may only work with Pcmaclan or other variables.
I'm not a mac'er, and don't have G3's with MacOS <n> lying around to get the MacOS install process going)
:) I dont think I'm considered a mac'er either.
I favor Debian and have had no real software problems, the hard drive sounds like a old manual typewriter other than that it works.
I've a 6 Gb baby lying around, and 4x16 MB (and 2x32MB I'm not 100% sure about).
The disk sounds fine under macos, it only 2gb so I't may just be sorely short of room in the debian partition that causes my problem.
Good luck with the 840av.
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