Re: Problems installing OBSD 3.4 on IIsi

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 03:42:22PM -0500, sunder wrote:
> Guys, I can give you an empirical answer for my IIsi.  :)
> 
> Last night I located a copy of SoftFPU on an old CDR of Mac 
> shareware/freeware from back in the day of 68k Macs. :)
> 
> The installer worked.  As a matter of fact, I started installing all of 
> the obsd 3.4 packages on my IIsi.  It has taken about 13 hours.  This 
> install is to a 1GB Jazz disk since I didn't have enough space on the 
> internal disk.

I intend to write something about my mac68k install experience and
how INSTALL.mac68k is lacking some good to know information and advice.

The two most time comsumming step of the install process are the
HD SC drive inititialisation (if needed) and the BSD installer. The
ssh key generation was nothing compared to those two!

If you have an supported CD-ROM or network, you're way better off
using the BSD Installer to install be minimum BSD.TGZ, ETC34.TGZ
and BASE34.TGZ and leave the remainder to be installed from within
the running OpenBSD OS.

Heck, if I had known, I would have split base34.tgz in two and
install the /usr part from within OpenBSD in single user mode.


> Anyway, as part of my trying to get the IIsi to work, I thought I'd dig 
> up the old beastie and see if I could harvest the FPU out of it. (Yes, I 
> know it would be unlikely since the IIcx/si have different clock speeds, 
> but I thought I'd try anyway, on the off chance that it would work.)   I 
> didn't see any PDS slot, didn't see any socket for the FPU, didn't see 
> any slots other than the 3 NuBUS slots and something for a new ROM 
> SIMM.  It might be possible that something was built for the ROM SIMM 
> slot, but I highly doubt it.

If the Apple site is to be beleived, the IIcx always came with the
68882 FPU. So they might have soldered it directly to the board
instead of socket it.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=112171


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