Subject: Re: MicroVAX II NetBSD
To: Bob Manners <rjm@swift.eng.ox.ac.uk>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@rocinante.digex.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/30/1996 11:56:59
Bob,
Your config should work fine...Someone on this list (sorry I forgot
whom) is working on a driver that will support the dzq11, but that
probably isn't ready yet...but the rest of it should work fine.
Shipping tapes around is probably your best bet.
Good luck,
-Dave McGuire
mcguire@rocinante.digex.net
On January 30, you wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm interested in getting hold of NetBSD, which I understand is
> available for the MicroVAX II. Some wise soul suggested I should check
> with you first that my controllers and so on are supported. The system
> is a MicroVAX II, thus configured:
>
> KA 630 v1.3 CPU
> 2 x EMC2 8Mb Memory boards (so 16Mb in total)
> TK50 with controller
> Emulex MSCP controller with external Fujitsu (~250Mb) disk
> DEQNA
> DEC 4 port RS232 board (forget the model number DZQ11??)
>
> Preferably I'd like to get NetBSD on a couple of TK50 tapes. How would
> I go about obtaining such? A kind soul in the US has offered to mail
> me so, if I send some blanks over. Is there an easier way?
>
> Secondly, a brief overview of what is included in the stribution would
> be nice...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bob.
>
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