> I've been having fun working up this configuration,
> thanks to Chris and a local netBSD company.
>
> The onCD documentation for installing the OS was a little spotty,
> It's taken a bunch of workarounds to get it this point: O/S loaded
> and booting which I can make public if anybody wants.
>
> It threatens to be entirely enjoyable experience, if it works reliably,
> which it isn't at current. I get random segmentation and other faults
> during medium level of challenge commands like df,du, and pstat.
This sounds an awful lot like an FPU-less system running an FPU kernel.
Certain classes of LC040s do not properly allow emulation of F-line traps
and the result is exactly what you're describing; random faults once the
machine boots up.
What version of NetBSD and what Mac and specs?
> #3 hasn't been seen within the MacOS (7.5.1) but I don't know any
> serious tests for it.
If it works okay in MacOS, but not NetBSD, that situation is my #1 suspect.
I run NetBSD 1.5.3 on a IIci (mostly for reasons of laziness) and NetBSD
1.6.2 on a LCIII that was turned into a Q605 with a mo'bo' swap (and then
upgraded to a true 68040 _at_ 25MHz), as well as NetBSD/macppc on a 7300 with
a G3/500, so I've got plenty of "MacBSD" boxes here. All of them are
production, and my IIci has had literally years of uptime.
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