Good presentation by Kevin last night BTW. Now for the question. I want to set up NetBSD on a Mac 8500 (PPC 603) with accelerator card. I have two, two gigabyte harddrives. Some large amount of RAM above what is required. I want to put NetBSD on the machine just to say I have done it and to have it act as a low volume server (mostly so I can experiment with the differences between BSD and Linux). The instructions I found on the NetBSD page explain how to make a dual boot system. I'm not interested in dual booting. I want this machine to boot only into NetBSD. Before the meeting last night we were discussing how to install NetBSD on this machine without the dual boot option. I thought it might be useful to ask how this can be done simply. If this works, I may be able to pass along this knowledge to three other people who are considering this for their older Macs. Best start from step one. I haven't downloaded it yet. Later Mike -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Call-A.P.P.L.E. and the Digital Civilization http://www.callapple.org | | http://members.shaw.ca/pfaiffer = Mike Pfaiffer (B.A., B.Sc.) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ----- BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK ----- Version: 3.12 GCS/G/IT/PA/SS d s+:- a? C++ UL L++ W++ N++ o+ K- w(---) O+@ M++@ V PS+ PE !PGP t+ 5+ X R tv b+ DI+++ D++ G e++* h! r-- !y-- UF++ ------ END GEEK CODE BLOCK ------