Celebration! After lurking on this list for a long time, I finally got 
myself a uVAXII for running NetBSD. So tonight I made a big pot of coffee 
and set out on the big adventure. I didn't get very far, though...

I've tried using Robert Byer's instructions for generating a TK50 boot 
tape on a VMS system: (I've edited out the comments here)

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Date: Sat, 01 Oct 1994 22:18:39 EDT
From: Robert Byer <byer@carl.a-com.com>
To: PORT-VAX@NetBSD.ORG
Cc: TECH-INSTALL@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: VMS Boot Tape Instructions...

	$ INITIALIZE/ERASE MUA0: ""
	$ MOUNT/FOREIGN/BLOCK=512 MUA0:
	$ COPY TK50-FILE1-10A.; MUA0:
	$ DISMOUNT/UNLOAD MUA0:
        .....
	$ COPY TK50-FILE2-10A.; MUA0:
        .....
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However, when I boot from tape no. 1, here's what happens:

   2..1..0..


howto 0x0, bdev 0x12, booting...
9852+456+34916 start 0x0

Nboot
: /netbsd
No such file or directory
: /netbsd
Unknown error: code 12
: /netbsd
Unknown error: code 12
:

NOTE: I didn't type _anything_! The "/netbsd" comes "automagically" 
three times before I can type anything. If I try to start edlabel or 
copy at this point I get the same error-msg as above:

: edlabel
Unknown error: code 12
: copy
Unknown error: code 12
:

I wrote the tape on a VMS 6.1 system using a SCSI TK50. I've tried 
downloading the tk50-file1-10a.gz file from both ftp.netbsd.org and 
ftp.luth.se. No difference. I also tried writing both files to the same 
tape (file1, then file2, then dismount). No difference. I've of course 
tried several different tapes...

Is this the "writing boot tapes on VMS doesn't work" problem, or is it 
something else? Please help, I'm itching to get her up and running (her? 
he? it? Hm, gender of VAXen, a topic of it's own... ;-)

Gunnar

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