You should try netbooting the machine:

	http://world.std.com/~bdc/projects/vaxen/VAX-netboot-HOWTO.html

		David/absolute

- I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am
- a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have
- never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood.

On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Iain Hardcastle wrote:

> I have a VS3100 that I would like to get 1.3 running on.
> 
> If someone could please tell me the best way to get NetBSD onto this
> system, I'd be very grateful.
> 
> Let me explain my setup:
> 
> VS3100, 16Mb RAM, Internal 1Gb, Internal TK50Z. External RZ28, External
> RZ58, external CDROM.
> 
> Currently running OpenVMS 6.1 on the 1Gb and RZ28.
> 
> I would like to use the RZ58 as the NetBSD disk.
> 
> I have a SPARC20 running Sol2.6 and a w95 PC - all networked.
> 
> I have created a tape but the VAX wont boot from it. It just whirrs
> through the tape and then boots off the internal DK.
> 
> I appear to be stuck. Any Ideas? Why wont it pick the image up from the
> tape? Unfortunately, I traded the scsi floppy for the MKB.
> 
>  Cheers
> Iain.
> 
> --
> Iain Hardcastle
> CCS Group Ltd
> Hamilton, Bermuda.
> 
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