Subject: RE: NetBSD on A VAX4000 M200
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Lindgren, Jon <jlindgren@SLK.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/07/1998 08:17:40
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anders Magnusson [mailto:ragge@ludd.luth.se]
> Sent: Sunday, December 06, 1998 12:35 PM
> To: markoer@markoer.org
> Cc: port-vax@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: NetBSD on A VAX4000 M200
> 
> 
> > 
> [...]
> > 
> > Do you think I could reach to succesfully install the NetBSD? is the
> > processor of this VAX supported (I red the '650' was, I've 
> got the '660' if
> > I'm not wrong)?  Can I install NetBSD from the SCSI tape? 
> Any suggestion
> > before attempting the installation? or am I on my own? 
> > 
> The VAX 4000/200 is not supported at all; except for some work done to
> get the ethernet device driver to work standalone. I would think that
> support for it is not close; I don't have such machine and I 
> don't think
> that someone else is close to get it work. So, you're 
> probably "on your own".

Almost - I've got a 4000-200 at home, too.  Out of sheer boredom, I tried to
netboot it - it looks like the loader went across the network, but my vax
didn't like it.  Does anyone know where documentation can be had (phone
numbers, web page for contacts, etc...)?  I've looked around a bit and not
found much.  I'm not a kernel man, but I would be happy to do what I can for
this machine (i.e. buy books, etc...).  I could even make my machine
available to the net and give it a nice serial console so anybody who wants
to do development might cu to it.

-Jon Lindgren
 Spear, Leeds & Kellogg
 (201) 332-3577, x4391
 jlindgren@slk.com

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