Re: mac68k Port question

[Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net>]

Martin Marconcini wrote:
> 
> Hi !!!
> 
> I need a small box for internal use. I though that i might try a different
> port rather than the usual i386. I have found a couple of Macintosh Quadra
> 650 With 16Mb Ram. and 80Mb hard disk space.
> 
> I have been reading http://www.openbsd.org/mac68k.html about the port and
> this particular model seems to be well supported. The question is, has
> anyone tried this hardware w/openbsd? Is there any issue. There will be no X
> on it. Can openbsd be installed on 80 mb??? (minimal!) It there any issue
> about this?
> Base/Etc sets.

80m is not going to cut it.

First of all, keep in mind that the Mac68k port is not "free booting"
-- it requries MacOS to boot first, that is going to take some of that
disk space.  After that, 120M was the smallest drive I ever tried an
OpenBSD install on, and as I recall, a base system was quite snug
there.  And then the point of this, I presume, isn't to load the OS,
but to DO something with it after it is loaded...

Ports alone currently takes up 47M -- BEFORE you have built anything. 
It expands rapidly from there. 

While it might be possible to do a very stripped install of OpenBSD to
an 80M Mac drive, I don't think it would be a general purpose box at
all, and it would not be a task for beginners (not that the Mac
install ever was...)

The good news is you should be able to find a 1G or 2G drive fairly
easily -- "small" SCSI drives are fairly common now surplus.

Nick.
(who just felt motivated to stick a "big" 2g drive in one of his
Quadras and start getting OpenBSD loaded on it)
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