Re: Problems installing OBSD 3.4 on IIsi

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Nick Holland wrote:

> sunder wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've got a Mac IIsi with 17Mb of RAM, and a Sonic 10BT/10B2/AUI network
> > card.  It's currently running MacOS 7.5.
> 
> That card doesn't happen to include a FPU (Floating Point Unit, math
> co-processor, whatever you want to call it), does it?
> 
> > I've set it to 1 bit video, 32 bit addressing, and disabled virtual memory
> > as per the install doc. I then setup an AUX swap + an AUX usr+root
> > partition and and then formatted usr+root with the mkfs program as per the
> > documentation.
> > 
> > However, when I run the installer, it immediately crashes with System error
> > 90.  I've also downloaded the 1.3 version of the installer from the
> > snapshots utils directory, and it too crashes in the same place.
> ...
> > Any ideas?
> 
> The installer requires an FPU (I have NO idea why).  The IIsi does not
> include one standard.

This is total speculation: there used to be a utility SoftFPU for MacOS.  
The m68k only version of this was shareware, iirc. This allowed programs
requiring an FPU, like Mathemetica, to run on FPU-less Macs by doing an
emulation of the coprocessor in software.  Maybe you can try that....

	-Otto

> 
> Last I tried it (it *has* been a while...), OpenBSD wasn't working on
> the IIsi, it panicked early in the boot process if I recall properly. 
> I did the install by either prepping the drive on another machine and
> moving it to the IIsi, or by using a NIC which had an optional (but
> populated) FPU socket (and I think I used both processes).  I do have
> to try it again...
> 
> Nick.
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