On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Tim Atluru wrote:

> When I run either of these (from the ARC->upgrade firmware option) they
> seem to do their thing. 

You need to switch to the SRM console; NetBSD will not use the ARC
console. On the Multia there's an option somewhere in all of those
ARC menus that talks about switching to the Digital Unix/VMS console
or something like that; that's what you want.

> I doubt it matters but I am using a FreeBSD box as my tftp/bootp/NFS 
> server here. I am using the snapshot from 19971027(?) in the 1.3_Alpha
> directory.

FreeBSD should work just fine for this. Once you've switched to
the SRM console,following the netboot instructions available from
under <http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/>. If you run into problems,
post exactly what you tried to do, and what happens, and I'll help
you out.

cjs

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