Subject: Re: Netbooting a VAXstation 3500
To: None <devin@thezone.net, port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polder.ubc.kun.nl>
List: port-vax
Date: 09/17/1998 12:54:00
In <199809170616.DAA25017@firma.thezone.net> "Devin Rubia" <devin@thezone.net> writes:
> Well, I've got my console working, so now on to step 2.
>
> Has anyone written a standalone driver for the DELQA ethernet
>adaptor yet. I will need one as netbooting seems to be the only way
>I can install at the moment.
>
> My options are very limited as to how to get NetBSD on this
>machine. I have no access to the current OS (Ultrix) as it doesn't
>give me a login on the console and I don't have a monitor. There is
You say you have a console, so you can boot Ultrix in single-user mode.
I think it is
>>> B/2 where 2 is RB_SINGLE.
Then you can change the root password so you have proper access to
Ultrix at least.
>a TK70 in the machine but I have no source for tapes or a way of
>creating a boot tape anyway.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>Devin
-Olaf.
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