andreadandrea
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Hallo everybody,
since some months a new idea appeared in my mind: bring back to life my old Quadra 610.
It has been down almost uninterruptedly since the 90', but there are still in its hd some important files to me and some interesting sw, that I would like to undust.
I started browsing around to get the last breaking news about old m68k macs and I found many hints, so I decided that what I would like to do is to muscle a little bit my mac and to put in it a/ux, netbsd and maybe substitute the presently installed macos 7.5.5 with macos8.1 (with multi boot).
At the moment I have the sw and part of the hw (it's being dificult to me to find the cdrom and a larger hd, but I should be able to get to 20MB ram soon).
Now I need some advice:
- is 20MB of ram ok for a/ux, netbsd and macos8.1? Take in account that this mac is _not_ going to be heavy duty at all.
- what is the minimum hd I need to put in all what I said? I am no developer but maybe I would compile some old time classic of mine (angband, nethack) if I can't get them on binary.
- what partition scheme would you advice to me? please include all mac partitions and swap (the same partion for a/ux and netbsd, I guess).
- how can I dual boot? I read about system picker and so, but it's still unclear to me.
- some advice on the cdrom: my Q610 has a pizzabox case and needs a special cover for the cdrom, any advice on how to fit a generic cdrom inside without cover and plastic guides? Maybe better put inside the big hd and get an external cdrom?
- what's the matter with openbsd on m68k? nobody speaks about it...
Ok, this post is so long I stop.
I hope somebody holded on down to here and will clarify a little bit things to me
byebye,
Andrea
since some months a new idea appeared in my mind: bring back to life my old Quadra 610.
It has been down almost uninterruptedly since the 90', but there are still in its hd some important files to me and some interesting sw, that I would like to undust.
I started browsing around to get the last breaking news about old m68k macs and I found many hints, so I decided that what I would like to do is to muscle a little bit my mac and to put in it a/ux, netbsd and maybe substitute the presently installed macos 7.5.5 with macos8.1 (with multi boot).
At the moment I have the sw and part of the hw (it's being dificult to me to find the cdrom and a larger hd, but I should be able to get to 20MB ram soon).
Now I need some advice:
- is 20MB of ram ok for a/ux, netbsd and macos8.1? Take in account that this mac is _not_ going to be heavy duty at all.
- what is the minimum hd I need to put in all what I said? I am no developer but maybe I would compile some old time classic of mine (angband, nethack) if I can't get them on binary.
- what partition scheme would you advice to me? please include all mac partitions and swap (the same partion for a/ux and netbsd, I guess).
- how can I dual boot? I read about system picker and so, but it's still unclear to me.
- some advice on the cdrom: my Q610 has a pizzabox case and needs a special cover for the cdrom, any advice on how to fit a generic cdrom inside without cover and plastic guides? Maybe better put inside the big hd and get an external cdrom?
- what's the matter with openbsd on m68k? nobody speaks about it...
Ok, this post is so long I stop.
I hope somebody holded on down to here and will clarify a little bit things to me
byebye,
Andrea