Re: Expectations for a performa (was [tech]Re: gcc 3.x with Openbsd src tree)

>Do you think that would be possible to do the work from Mac OS X? Maybe
>using the old utilities under Sys 7.5 to label the openBSD partitions
>and then trying to access them from Mac OS X? I've been kind of hoping
>that might work, because my iBook just barely has enough room for Mac OS
>X. If I could afford another iBook this would would be perfect to put
>openBSD on, but my wife would not want to use the command-line mail.

Why not upgrade the drive in your iBook?  40GB IBM Travelstar drives are 
selling for about $120-$140 and are generally much faster than the 
original Apple drives.  I put one of these in an old PowerBook and it not 
only made MacOS X possible, it increased overall performance under MacOS 
9; really felt like i had dropped in an accelerator.  Never 
under-estimate the value of a fast HD for improving system performance 
(especially on a UNIX box).

Regarding moving OpenBSD to the Performa, just use Apple Filesharing over 
EtherNet to drop the tarball and utilities onto the box (assuming you 
have enough HD space; you *should* be able to use multiple HD's for 
install as it's running under MacOS, even if you're unable to use the 
additional HD later when booted under OpenBSD... YMMV).