Hi.

> I am finally trying to complete the startup of my NetBSD installed
> DECStation 5000, and having some problems, wonder if this is the right
> place to put this ... if it's not, please don't actually answer the
> questions, just tell me where to repost.
>

What is the model of DECstation 5000 you have at hand?  And, what's the
video card on it?

> I'll update the kernel to the latest as soom
> as I get the network going.  The kernel I have now is 1.2.

I recommend you to install NetBSD-1.3/pmax.  It was improved in many
aspects.  I guess you had hardships to install NetBSD-1.2/pmax
release on your DS5000.  For the introduction of "sysinst", a bunch
of weird features (nearly bugs) of NetBSD-1.2/pmax were fixed or
improved greatly.

> I have a huge color monitor, I guess it's a VR-299,
> and seems to have 57 lines onscreen.  What's the correct terminal type
> from termcap to use for this beast?  I tried the pcvt50, but it loses
> the bottom 7 lines of screen, and keeps on getting stuck in reverse
> video mode.

In common circumstances, "sun" works.

> [ ... difficulties with Xserver ... ]

It's another reason you should go NetBSD-1.3.

Tohru Nishimura
Nara Institute of Science and Technology