Re: Problems installing OBSD 3.4 on IIsi

Sascha Welter wrote:

> My first OpenBSD machine was a IIcx (with 2.8) and I had supported
> another IIcx as a Mac OS machine for a while. So I can say most 
> definitely that the IIcx had a FPU. OpenBSD works or at least worked on
> it.

Ok, I guess it's not obviously labeled as 68882.  I only found one Motorola 
chip the 68030 - so I guess I didn't look hard enough.  I'll try and see if 
I can resurrect this machine.  (The power supply has some rust on the 
cover.)  I'm not so sure it still works.

> With respect to the mentioned experiment with SoftFPU, we should not
> forget that booting OpenBSD off external media is not supported. Only
> one internal HD is supported by the mac68k port. 

So what exactly is the limitation?  Does the SCSI ID of the disk have to be 
zero? As far as the 53c80 or whatever SCSI controller is concerned it 
shouldn't even be able to tell the difference between external and internal 
devices as they're on the same bus...  I suppose I could set the Jaz drive 
to ID 0 and disable the internal hard disk (so that I could avoid a 13 hour 
install again.) :)

> I had my Quadra 700
> booted with an additional external SCSI HD hooked up, but it crashed
> a lot. And let me tell you that fsck takes ages to repair a 9Gig SCSI
> drive on a 25Mhz mac68k machine.

I'm sure it does.  :)  The install to an 800mb partition on the Jaz cart 
took 13 hours...