Subject: Resurrecting and putting NetBSD in a 5000/200
To: None <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Mauricio Tavares <Mauricio@proedint.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 07/28/1999 13:57:15
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Two weeks ago I was given a DEC 5000/200. It came with keyboard, rodent,
16MB (My Guess) of RAM, but no monitor or HD. To check it out, I took it
to work, hid it under my monitor (so now people will think it is a monitor
base ;), and got a null modem cable so I could connect it to the PC I use
at work. I got then Tera Term for the PC, told it to look for com2, took
the PMAG-B card off the DEC, booted it, and this is what I got:
KN02-AA V5.3t
>>?
? [cmd]
boot [[-z #] [-n] #/path [ARG...]]
cat SCRPT
cnfg [#]
d [-bhw] [-S #] RNG VAL
e [-bhwcdoux] [-S #] RNG
erl [-c]
go [ADR]
init [#] [-m] [ARG...]
ls [#]
passwd [-c] [-s]
printenv [EVN]
restart
script SCRPT
setenv EVN STR
sh [-belvS] [SCRPT] [ARG..]
t [-l] #/STR [ARG..]
unsetenv EVN
>>printenv
boot=5/rz0/vmunix -a
testaction=q
haltaction=h
more=24
#=7
console=1
osconsole=7
>>
It would seem to me that it was originally configured to boot from HD SCSI
#0. Does -a mean multiuser? console and osconsole means nothing to me.
How can I ask it to chec the memory and report how much it thinks it has?
I would like to put NetBSD in it. I should have a little 512MB HD I could
use at least to check the machine out. My problem here is that there are
*no* other unix boxes at work. I have a Sparc at home but would prefer not
to have to take one to where the other is and work from there. So, given
that I have a PC on my desk running win95, how can I put NetBSD in the
5000/200?