Stanley Reynolds wrote:
> 
> > I'am the proud owner of a 5000/25 and 5000/2000. In reading the
> installation
> > instructions it
> > appears that my cdrom is not bootable and "boot 3/rz5/netbsd" does get an
> > error. I do have a cd

There are some problems with booting older workstations from cdroms.
Hint: The OpenVMS FAQ is definitely helpfull.

> > burner on my windows me system that I used to make the 1.5.2 pmax cd from
> > iso image. Is it
> > possible to boot a cd ? Where can I get a image ? I've read the
> instructions
> > about using a helper
> > system to write the boot image on a disk or netbooting but this appears
> like
> > booting 4k basic from
> > paper tape on my S-100 system.

There are bootable ISO's out there, but not every netbsd mirror has
them. You can normally netboot these machines without to much problems.
Almost any common Unix system will do well as a boot server.
They don't need to boot via mop. tftp will normally work too.

Dennis

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