[rescue] OpenBSD

[Mike Nicewonger]

on 1/31/02 12:26 AM, Derrick D. Daugherty at derrick at blinky-lights.org
wrote:

> It's rumored that around Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 11:30:50PM -0500
> Andrew Weiss <ajwdsp at cloud9.net> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, January 29, 2002, at 10:02 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
>> 
>>> Yes, it has...tremendously.  Take a peek at http://www.netbsd.org.
>>> 
>>> -Dave
>>> 
>> It still isn't great on 68K.  I tried swapping out every piece of
>> hardware I own for my Quadra with duplicates and other known working
>> systems and boards.  I even re-downloaded everything in case the iso was
>> bad.  NetBSD 1.5.2 refused to install properly on the Quadra, so I went
>> back to Linux (Debian 2.2r3), which had been crashing randomly.  It's
>> now stable after switching the kernel to the 2.2.20 version available on
>> Source Forge.
> 
> This reminds me, i miss my powermac 6100/60.  It will make the boot
> noises but I never get any video out.  I didn't use it for a year or two
> and it has tons of mail for several years that i'd like to recover.  I'm
> sure i could snarf it off the drive, but it'd be cool to get it back on
> the lan and use it again.  this was back in like 93/94 when i thought
> there was money to be made in designing web pages...i'd love to look at
> all that old data.  anyone have any ideas about a system that seems
> _completely_ functional but never gives any juice on the video?  it's
> onboard vid of course.
> 

Can you put a framebuffer in any of the slots? Or is that one that lacks any
expandability?

-Mike N