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by **Eugene Zaikonniko** » Fri, 08 Dec 2000 04:00:00

Hello world,

I'm a proud owner of an old PB 180, and today I noticed that it listed among
supported platforms on NetBSD 1.5 pages, so now am considering to install
the real OS there. However, prior to flushing MacOS partition I would
appreciate some bits of information:
- is it possible to install the thing onto a 80 Mb drive? I don't need X11,
but C compiler and basic utilities are highly desirable;
- is PB 1xx series hardware fully supported? For instance, m68k port of
Linux can't deal with old powerbooks' ADB, which makes it practically
unusable in my case.

Regards,
Eugene.

by **Matt Neuman** » Sat, 09 Dec 2000 23:55:44

> - is it possible to install the thing onto a 80 Mb drive? I don't need X11,
> but C compiler and basic utilities are highly desirable;

I've gotten netbsd running on an LCII (that's a 68030, IIRC) with an 80
Mb drive; I didn't install the man pages, and only installed a small
set of the C libraries, but I have a bootable system with a little bit
of space left over. HTH.

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by **Mark We** » Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:24:53

NetBSD 1.5 installs and runs fine on my PB180C. I can confirm that
unlike Linux the system DOES recognise the ADB bus. As to the disk
size... you will need a bootable Mac partition, but this can be very
smal if you use a minimum 7.1 system. My only drive is a non standard
one of 1 gig. But I believe the NetBSD will install without X on a very
small partition....

> Hello world,

> I'm a proud owner of an old PB 180, and today I noticed that it listed among
> supported platforms on NetBSD 1.5 pages, so now am considering to install
> the real OS there. However, prior to flushing MacOS partition I would
> appreciate some bits of information:
> - is it possible to install the thing onto a 80 Mb drive? I don't need X11,
> but C compiler and basic utilities are highly desirable;
> - is PB 1xx series hardware fully supported? For instance, m68k port of
> Linux can't deal with old powerbooks' ADB, which makes it practically
> unusable in my case.

> Regards,
> Eugene.

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