NetBSD for AO486!

[hsnewman]

I've been able to get NetBSD going on the AO486. I've uploaded it to: https://archive.org/details/netbsd-1999

[Bas]

Awesomeness! I've been looking at prepping a VHD for OpenBSD for a while. I started using OpenBSD 2.4 back in the day and had a nostalgic urge. Unfortunately it won't recognize a CD-ROM and I can't configure PPP networking from the install floppy so this will take some effort so I dropped it again. How did you go about setting up NetBSD?

[Stinky]

Would openbsd work anyway? I thought it needs an fpu, where netbsd runs on any potato. It would be neat though I have nostalgia for openbsd and debian from the 90s.

[shaitan]

Holy shit that's awesome. I looked into this for a little bit to see if it was possible with what's out there but I didn't look too much. NetBSD was my first real experience into the world of *nix when I was futzing around with a bunch of old apple hardware.

[Bas]

The OpenBSD 2.4 installer floppy boots so a viable kernel exists. I'm too busy with my other geek projects though.