Update: I now have a 450Mhz G4, with 1.25GB Ram running OpenBSD 7.6 with a LxQT desktop environment on its own 20GB HD. Things that need to be done to complete the install:
1) Relocate ALL of the “apps” to the /usr/local directory. I’m hoping this will then have them show up in the LxQT menu where some of the apps I installed DO appear. Eg: Audaciuos and Dillo loaded and created icons in the appropriate app folder. Conky, wmweather and others can only be run/started in the QTterminal.
2) Determine how to get OpenBSD to “see” the 2GB Iomega JAZ drive and 250MB SCSI drive connected to an Adaptec 9600 card. I understand /etc/fstab needs to be edited so OpenBSD can see them. It’s possible OpenBSD won’t be able to access them because they aren’t (currently) formatted in a manner OpenBSD could use.
There are two other hard drives in this G4, a 1GB for storage and a 160GB drive that has OS9.2 and OSX.2 and Slackintosh 12.1 on separate partitions.
And finally I have to take this:
And make it all fit. What you are looking at is the shell of a 450MHz G4, running off a power supply from a Quicksilver G4 that died and the collection of DVD drives and hard drives that will eventually be mounted in the shell. I wanted to get the Operating systems installed first as the process required connecting and disconnecting the DVDRWs and hard drives in such a way that openBSD would boot with “boot hd:,ofwboot /bsd.”
It’s been fun and will post a photo once it’s all reassembled and up and running!
MacMav855
