[geeks] Ok I am ready to kill this Fu**ing linux box

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Friday, May 24, 2002, at 09:49 , Dave Kimmel wrote:

> I *think* that my Quadra 610 will run OpenBSD.  I managed to boot a 
> Linux
> kernel on it, which implies that the 68LC040 isn't one of the ones that
> can't run a unix (something about FPU emulation, IIRC).

Most Quadra 610's were full '040's, only the 8/160 config was an LC.  
Are you sure you have the LC?  (IF you do, I have a spare 040 25MHz 
kicking around...)

> All of the HOWTOs I've seen for running either Linux or OpenBSD on this
> involve using a bunch of MacOS tools and, once its installed, booting it
> using a MacOS app.  This doesn't really appeal to me.

Yeah, but that's the way it's done to get around some of the mac 
firmware.  The good news is that you can make a really small MacOS 
partition and just have a bootable system on it as well as the utility.  
Put the utility in as a startup item, and booting is still automatic.

   [...]
> has MacOS and no traces of OpenBSD, and another that has OpenBSD and no
> traces of MacOS.

As far as I know, you can't do it.  I'd love for somebody to prove me 
wrong...

-Pete