Re: Status of port-newsmips?

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

In article <a05100307b9a390e52605@[10.0.0.10]>
raub%kudria.com@localhost wrote:

>       Can the machine boot out of a CDROM?

Probably not, but booting from floppy is enough to install.
(but it's better to clean up floppy drives before boot ;-)

>       I've tried configuring its jumpers (Ex: setting jumpers 1 to 
> 3 to off, which should mean use serial port according tot he FAQ), 
> then connected a serial cable between my computer and the NEWS box 
> and nothing happened.   I also tried adding a null modem and still 
> had the same result. =(

Maybe NVRAM in your machines is dead. If so, you can try the same
procedure with news68k:
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/news68k/faq.html#dead_nvram
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost