Subject: Re: Resurrecting and putting NetBSD in a 5000/200
To: None <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Richard van den Berg <R.vandenBerg@inter.NL.net>
List: port-pmax
Date: 07/28/1999 21:45:26
On 28 Jul 1999, Mauricio Tavares wrote:

> 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?

-a is indeed multiuser, if you forget it, NetBSD goes single user, cnfg
should report the system configuration. 

> 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?

Somewhere in a newsgroup I've read that there exist a tftp/bootp server
for win95, have you searched deja? 512 MB suffice for starters, 112 MB was
enough to run a DECstation as a X-terminal. 

Regards,
Richard