Re: NetBSD 10.1 on Acer PICA - Success !

Andy Ruhl <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:57:35 -0700

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On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM sadness <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Finally found the time to put my Acer PICA-61 board into a decent case.
> Tested NetBSD 10.1 on it, with great success !
> Installed from cdrom, let the installer create the 2Mb FAT12 partition
> for the bootloader, and it's now happily booting from disk, going into
> multi-user, and everything seems to be working fine.

Didn't even know what that was. Looked it up. This is pretty cool.

I haven't booted a wacky arch NetBSD in a long time, it's a shame. My
Dreamcast is still sitting there with the boot CD in it....

Andy