Thanks for your suggestions pastor. With regards to openBSD, it seems they're working on getting it to work on older PowerPC macs (some have it working already). Looking forward to that!
--- Pastor Mac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday, July 2, 2004, at 03:41 AM, Zinneken wrote: > > > I'm a complete newby, so forgive my ignorance in these early > stages > > of a steep learning curve. > > > > I got this old Umax (Apus 3000) clone which I've undusted and > want to > > be doing something with it. Through all my reading I know I want > one > > of the *bsd flavours on there, my preference being openbsd. > > > > I have the US equivalent C600. Since you have a Umax clone you may > > also want to consider joining the Supermacs mailing list sponsored > by > Lowendmac. That group has saved my backside so often I've lost > count. > It truly has been a wonderful group of helpful people. > > > Has anyone installed any of the *bsd flavours on this type of > > machine? If so, what are your experiences? > > I've become a proponent of BSD lately and am learning the BSD way > vs. > Linux. That said, legacy Old World PPC Macs unfortunately are not > supported by OpenBSD, according to their platform page > http://openbsd.org/plat.html so your choice will be NetBSD. See > the > Mac model page http://netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html#clone and > > especially pay close attention to the footnotes. I've been > interested > in putting NetBSD on my C600 but considering I'm pretty raw, I'd > like > to get some more experience before I try to deal with the various > and > sundry boot issues. The big issue is having some form of video > card > besides the onboard video. I have an ATI Rage Pro 8 MB card which > has > served me well in OS 9 and should get around the video issue. > > > Can these *bsd flavours indeed use some cheap PC PCI cards? Any > > experiences? > > I would think most would work. But with these issues in mind, you > may > also consider Yellow Dog Linux as they have pretty good support of > legacy hardware and YDL booted fine (with the BootX > extension--necessary for Old World Macs) and life was good. > > Pax, > > Pastor Mac > On OS X __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- MaX-list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> MaX-list info: <http://lowendmac.com/linux/max.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/max-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
