Subject: Re: Booting from cdrom / Mopd on Solaris
To: Samuel Kleiner <f98sakl@dd.chalmers.se>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 09/26/1999 15:53:03
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 05:34:17PM +0200, Samuel Kleiner wrote:
> Is there any chance of burning a bootable netbsd cdrom on
> a solaris machine to be used on a VS3100/38? The cdrom is 
> bootable.

Well, afaik VAXen load the first sector off a device and do whatever is in
there.

I guess you should be able to put the installation FFS, complete with
bootblock, onto the CD-ROM, but you might have "disk geometry" related 
problems. Do VAX CD-ROMs pretend to have 512-byte blocks?

Regards,
	-is

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