NetBSD 4.0 software

[ChristTrekker]

Anticipating that 68k binaries will be long in coming, I've started building my own again. I threw out all my old 1.6 and 2.1 binaries and started over from scratch. Grab them if you're interested. If you have any special requests, post them in this thread - no promises though.

 

[QuadSix50]

Excellent, thanks!

 

[macgreg]

Thanks for this - may have to try NetBSD again!

 

[ChristTrekker]

Thanks for this - may have to try NetBSD again!

If so, check the recent archives of the port-mac68k list. A fellow named John Klos built 68040-optimized versions of the entire base system. That's what I'm running on my Q840. That said, the package binaries I build do not have any particular optimization so they should work on any 68k NetBSD.

 

[QuadSix50]

Thanks for this - may have to try NetBSD again!

If so, check the recent archives of the port-mac68k list. A fellow named John Klos built 68040-optimized versions of the entire base system. That's what I'm running on my Q840. That said, the package binaries I build do not have any particular optimization so they should work on any 68k NetBSD.

Good to know. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[MrCoffee]

Very Cool.... have ta try this out on my SE/30...

Your running on a Q840AV? I thought NetBSD had issues with the 840...?

 

[ChristTrekker]

Very Cool.... have ta try this out on my SE/30...
Your running on a Q840AV? I thought NetBSD had issues with the 840...?

SCSI is slow on the AV machines (slow enough that I may put /usr/pkgsrc on NFS to get a speedup!), but other than that it's dependable. I acquired the 840 before I realized that issue; now I wish it were a 800.

 

[lupsyn]

Anticipating that 68k binaries will be long in coming, I've started building my own again. I threw out all my old 1.6 and 2.1 binaries and started over from scratch. Grab them if you're interested. If you have any special requests, post them in this thread - no promises though.

Thx so much!

 

[paws]

Eh, i'm trying to install pkgsrc on my Quadra 700. I just threw the tar.gz at the MacBSD Installer program, and it looks like it'll take some 30 hours to unwrap it - does that sound right?

 

[ChristTrekker]

Eh, i'm trying to install pkgsrc on my Quadra 700. I just threw the tar.gz at the MacBSD Installer program, and it looks like it'll take some 30 hours to unwrap it - does that sound right?

Boot into NetBSD and just use tar -xvzf on it. Heck, unpack it elsewhere and suck it across your LAN, even that would be faster.

 

[Bunsen]

Grab them

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As to special request - pretty much anything MIDI and audio related

 

[paws]

Eh, i'm trying to install pkgsrc on my Quadra 700. I just threw the tar.gz at the MacBSD Installer program, and it looks like it'll take some 30 hours to unwrap it - does that sound right?

Boot into NetBSD and just use tar -xvzf on it. Heck, unpack it elsewhere and suck it across your LAN, even that would be faster.

Yeah, found that out. Tried untarring it inside NetBSD - I ran out of disk space quite quickly, though. Don't you suppose you know how much space it's supposed to take up?

 

[porter]

Don't you suppose you know how much space it's supposed to take up?

The contents of an unzipped tar.Z or tar.gz takes (give or take) the same size as the uncompressed/gunzipped tar file itself.

There are other alternatives such as

(a) put tgz files on a CD

( B) put tgz files on anther disk

© read tgz files through ssh from another machine

(d) read tgz files from a nfs volume

 

[Driverguru]

http://osdir.com/ml/netbsd.ports.mac68k/2005-01/msg00017.html

explains where Michael Zucca tried to get 840AV working faster,

I wonder if he actually got sync working but did not know that on a wide variety of scsi errors, sync is lost and you need to monitor and restore sync mode?

But without a SCSI card its still only 4 times faster than a mac plus if all is perfect :

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=12315

Technically, Apple claims 6 MB sec is possible on 840AV though

 

[ChristTrekker]

Grab them

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As to special request - pretty much anything MIDI and audio related

Fixed URL. Is there a specific package you cannot find in the official pkgsrc binaries? A bulk build was done for m68k recently so there's not as much incentive now unless there are specific needs.

Tried untarring it inside NetBSD - I ran out of disk space quite quickly, though. Don't you suppose you know how much space it's supposed to take up?

You probably want a 1GB disk to be able to have space for it and still do anything else.

 

[paws]

Yeah, it's going on an external IDE disk with a ->SCSI converter... Might even speed things up a little...