On 2003.01.14 16:47 Live Wire wrote:

> I recently came into a PWS 433a and a 3000/600S.  While I'm pretty
> sure the latter will run NetBSD=20
You have to use serial console to install. Once you have a running
system you can compile a TCWSCONS kernel to get full graphical console
and X11.=20

> I'm not so sure about the 433a.=20
I had NetBSD on my 500au bevore I switched to Tru64. It run very well on
this machine.=20

> show dev does NOT shot the hard disk. It shows the IDE CD-ROM just
fine,
> and the booting procedure shows the Symbios SCSI card (both channels),

> just no way to directly boot from hard disk.
SRM is very picky about hardware. I tried two different NCR / Symbios
53C875 based cards on my Alpha PC164 board and only one was recognized.
Maybe you shoud try an other SCSI adapter. Qlogic ISP 10x0 SCSI cards
should work also.=20
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