It works! Thank you very much, Bill.
 I am now able to go on in my experiment.
 I'll let you know about my progress
 (and problems).

 Lorenzo.

Il Mon, 10 January 2000, Bill Studenmund ha scritto:

> 
> On 9 Jan 2000, Lorenzo Corradini wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I am trying to install NetBSD/pmax
> > on a DECstation. Bob told me that I'm
> > hopless in using my NetBSD/mac68k as "helpler"
> > machine because Ultrix and NetBSD disk labels
> > are incompatible. I'll try with a netboot
> > with NetBSD/mac68k station as bootp and
> > tftp server.
> 
> That should work.
> 
> > My problem: I use the DECstation attached
> >             with a serial connection
> >             to the MacOS because I have no
> >             monitor for it. I need to
> >             do the same thing with NetBSD/mac68k
> >             in place of MacOS.
> > My question: how can I start a terminal emulator
> >              (and what terminal emulator)
> >              on my NetBSD/mac68k
> >              to receive from the serial line
> >              of the Macintosh the prompt of the
> >              DECstation? I read the xterm
> >              documentation but I think
> >              this is not the right tool to use.
> 
> Right, xterm is the xwindows terminal program.
> 
> I'd suggest tip. It's in the base install.
> 
> Make sure you set up /etc/remote right. I think you want something like:
> 
> console:dv=/dev/tty01:br#9600:pa=none:dc:
> 
> which works with "tip console".
> 
> The entries are seperated by colons. The first field is the name to give
> tip. Then dv= specifies the device. /dev/tty01 is the printer port. br# is
> the baud rate. pa= is the parity (none here), and dc means direct connect
> - tip shold NOT wait for DCD to be asserted before begining
> communications.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Bill

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