Subject: Re: booting from scsi hard drive
To: Sean Cavanaugh <seanc@cginfo.sk.ca>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/23/2000 23:26:41
At 12:12 AM 5/24/2000 -0600, Sean Cavanaugh wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I recently got my MicroVAX 3100/80 to boot over the network (thanks Matt
>=), but I would really like to boot off a hard drive.  I have a 660MB
>drive in a separate enclosure (DEC Storage Expansion) that gets detected
>at boot as:
>
>sd0 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <CDC, 94191-15, 0136> SCSI1 0/direct
>fixed
>sd0: 632 MB, 1632 cyl, 15 head, 52 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1295850 sectors
>
>show dev sees it as:
>DKA100    A/1/0   DISK   663.47MB  FX        94191-1     0136
>
>the drive itself is a Seagate drive I used to replace the dead RZ57
>originally in the enclosure.
>
>If you need any more info/clarifications let me know. I am still quite new
>to the VAX arch, and there seems to be an awful lot of acronyms associated
>with these machine. =)

Probably the easiest thing to do is to netboot the

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/vax/snapshot/2000017/installtion/netbsd.sysinst

and let it install the system. :)
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