What an adventure! It couldn't be that difficult to install NetBSD on an
old Macintosh, Well that is what I thought before I started the project.
The biggest hurdle was the internal disc drive. I had purchased a cd burner
to create a NetBSD CD to make the installation easier but only later
did I learn the drive of the Macintosh had failed. Thankfully the new drive
was USB and I was able to plug it into the Mac mini and boot from the CD.
The trickiest part was correctly setting up the partitions. I discovered
that if I created a swap partition with pdsik before starting sysinst than
NetBSD would not recognize the swap partition but if I used sysinst to create
the swap partition it worked fine. Once the machine was ready installing the
software and setting up the server was relatively easy.
For those that are curious here is a copy of the output of pfetch.
Did I just run that as root? You bet, I love to live dangerously.
Anyways, This little machine is going to host my random thoughts and I will
try to document any projects that I work on or books that I read. I feel that
I need some structure in my life and my goal is to use this gopher hole
as a means of creating that structure.
