Hello,
I have a LC II with 10megs of ram and a MMXL99 33mhz 68881 card.
YEARS ago I had NetBSD 1.6.? running on this. I dug it out and the quantum viking drive that had NetBSD on it is dead. The original 80meg drive with 7.x on it still boots. I had them both rigged in there with a multi tap SCSI cable and power Y cable.
I ordered a SCSI2SD to play with. My plan is to set it up with multiple virtual hard drives in there one with the MacOS to boot and use MacOS apps and to bootstrap a unix on the 2nd virtual drive.
My 1st question is it possible to copy MacOS off the working drive to the new drive and make it bootable? Or does MacOS need to be installed from floppy?
My 2nd question is what would be the most "usable" *nix on such a low end machine?
I don't mind running NetBSD 1.6 again but I cant find anywhere an archive of the 1.6 binary pkgs repository. They have vanished form the internet. The oldest pkgs repository I can find is 6.x. I was looking at newer version of NetBSD and the compressed kernal is over 2megs now. I think this will eat up all my little ram. I would like to have an irc client, maybe a httpd and a few other random things installed on here.
For networking I plan on just using SLIP(or PPP) on rs232 to my NetBSD PPC machine.
I have a LC II with 10megs of ram and a MMXL99 33mhz 68881 card.
YEARS ago I had NetBSD 1.6.? running on this. I dug it out and the quantum viking drive that had NetBSD on it is dead. The original 80meg drive with 7.x on it still boots. I had them both rigged in there with a multi tap SCSI cable and power Y cable.
I ordered a SCSI2SD to play with. My plan is to set it up with multiple virtual hard drives in there one with the MacOS to boot and use MacOS apps and to bootstrap a unix on the 2nd virtual drive.
My 1st question is it possible to copy MacOS off the working drive to the new drive and make it bootable? Or does MacOS need to be installed from floppy?
My 2nd question is what would be the most "usable" *nix on such a low end machine?
I don't mind running NetBSD 1.6 again but I cant find anywhere an archive of the 1.6 binary pkgs repository. They have vanished form the internet. The oldest pkgs repository I can find is 6.x. I was looking at newer version of NetBSD and the compressed kernal is over 2megs now. I think this will eat up all my little ram. I would like to have an irc client, maybe a httpd and a few other random things installed on here.
For networking I plan on just using SLIP(or PPP) on rs232 to my NetBSD PPC machine.