Re: Root Filesystem Size Rquirement for NetBSD 10?

On 09/06/2024 09:56, Paul Ripke wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 01:24:20PM -0400, David Riley wrote:
>>     On Jun 6, 2024, at 11:29, Stan Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>       ...
>>
>>       I started with 2.0.1a6 from Nigel Pearson. I compiled with MPW.
>>
>>       Sometime in-between my external SCSI disk where this all lived
>>
>>       died, so no full source set, but the file read_disk.c was the
>>
>>       only one with real changes (besides some ifdef mess for build
>>
>>       fixes).
>>
>>     I've looked for MPW (what version?) for years, but I've never found it.
>>     But I'm a bad enough programmer in GCC that even fining MPW probably
>>     wouldn't help. I do have Think C 4.0 (I think the last version was
>>     5.0),
>>     but that probably wouldn't work, either.
>>
>>     MPW shouldn't be too hard to find. Apple's old FTP site is long gone,
>>     but last I checked, there were still quite a few reliable mirrors of it
>>     hanging around. It's in the developer tools section. Here's one:
> 
> fwiw:
> 
> I never had MPW on the Mac back in the day, but I have had luck running
> THINK C / Symantec C/C++ on both BasiliskII and qemu. My old media has gone
> missing, but I found them both on macintoshrepository. I see there's MPW 3.x
> available:
> 
> https://www.macintoshrepository.org/545-macintosh-programmer-s-workshop-mpw-3-x
> 
> BasiliskII is much faster and flexible for general use - the shared unix dirs
> are great for transfers - but there's no MMU support, and the FPU is buggy.
> Which reminds me, I should update the version in pkgsrc...

Right, that's because BasiliskII is effectively a MacOS emulator as it patches 
specific points in the Universal ROM to execute native equivalent routines...

> qemu is solid emulation wise, and will boot netbsd-mac68k nicely. I've
> been using netatalk3 to transfer files locally.

... whereas QEMU emulates the real hardware which is why it can also boot NetBSD and 
A/UX.

> The fact that BasiliskII and netatalk3 use different formats for file
> forks is annoying, but it is possible to translate between the two.

There is also currently a WIP set of virtio drivers for Classic MacOS at 
https://github.com/elliotnunn/classicvirtio to aid transfers between the guest and 
host - feel free to try them and report any issues.


ATB,

Mark.