Re: [MacPerl-Forum] Hobby class mac TCP/IP server

[Joshua Juran <wanderer@metamage.com>]

At 11:36 AM -0700 1999-07-21, Vicki Brown wrote:
>At 10:04 -0500 7/16/99, Jefferson R. Lowrey wrote:
>>>Any tips or comments on:
>>>
>>>1. Partitioning LC630 for this purpose.
>>
>> You don't say how big the hard drive is.  In general, I would expect that
>> you'd need at least a 2 gig hard drive for what you're talking about - 1
>> gig for each side.  I could be wrong about the space requirements for the
>> linux side, though.
>
>you might be able to get away with 500 MB for each. And, depending on how
>much MacOS work you plan to do, say 300 for MacOS. So minimum 1 gb drive
>should work.  But look at the installation instructions for the *nix.

If all you want to do is boot Linux, you can get away with as little as 10
MB for Mac OS if you're using System 7.1.  I believe the LC630 requires
something more recent, but I expect that 20 MB would be sufficient if you
don't load all the unnecessary stuff onto it.  If you actually want to do
real work in Mac OS, you'll need more.

>>>2. Version of mac linux to use.
>>
>> Well, it's an LC630, so LinuxPPC is right out. ;-)  There are ports
>> available for mkLinux and one or two of the BSD's (Open and Free, i
>> think?).
>
>MkLinux is also PowerPC only. Look into NetBSD (http://www.netbsd.org).
>Also look at http://www.esperance.com/apple-flavored-unix/

Your options are Linux and NetBSD.  Linux/m68k has Mac support, and
Debian's installer works on Macs.  See <http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/> and
<http://www.debian.org/>.

>>>4. Is their a maclinux port of perl?
>
>Perl is ubiquitous. Perl is everywhere. Perl is all.

In other words, yes.  The m68k perl binaries work as expected.  If you're
intending to do serious Perl work (and you get to choose which platform), I
strongly recommend Linux over Mac OS.  MacPerl is great, but it's not the
same as using perl.

>> I hope the LC630 was free...
>
>An LC630 huh :-)

Hey, I used a Performa 475 for five years, and I used it for C++, MPWsh,
and Perl development.  (In fact, it was the machine that compiled the first
working Mac68k Linux bootloader -- I was the maintainer.) :-)  Now I have a
7100 with a G3 upgrade. =)

Josh

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