Rick Copeland wrote:
> I have been unable to run the 1.2c  TK50 (970315) snapshot files from
> NetBSD.org ftp server on my uVAX3600.  After I "B/3 MUA0" the first file I
> get the following:
[snipped output]
> The uVAX3600 I am running is completely stock, no changes in any hardware.
> It runs the 1.1 version fine.  I have tried the other 1.2c TK50 (970225)
> snapshot files from NetBSD.org ftp server and it works, however when I run

Well, it seems to me that you're succeeding with your install.  Your
post does raise one question though:  is there something wrong with the
970315 boot files.  I remember trying to boot it on my uVAX II but it
crashed if I tried edlabel or copy.  I just put the 970225 rx33 image on
the rx50 and then everything worked. 

> "disklabel -B ra0" the uVAX comes back with:
> 
> #disklabel: /usr/mdec/aboot: no such file or directory

As for raboot not being there, it just isn't there and you did the right
thing 
taking it off the tape.  I didn't have any luck reading from the floppy
drives, so I just used awk and the console port.  (You really wouldn't
want to know the twisted things I do to install things in these cases.) 
:-)

> when I tried to run MAKEDEV the system said that MAKEDEV did not exist so I

As for MAKEDEV, it is found in /dev and I'm sure it is there.  Just go
into dev and run it with ./MAKEDEV instead of just MAKEDEV.  It takes
options too, and they are explained in comments in the file.

> B DUA0
> 
> The system booted the miniroot!

See... you're on the right track.

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