> > 5.  I was noticing in the NetBSD 1.3.2 VAX tree that floppy boots seemed
> >     to exist.  I know the VS3100 can use the floppy, so a boot on that
> >     via floppy may be reasonable?  Can a floppy be put on the MV3100
> >     and used to boot that?  What size floppy (720K or 1.4M) should be
> >     used?  There seemed to be two sets of floppy images.
> 
> It plausible :-)  People have discussed it, but I've never known anyone to
> succeed.

I went playing with the better of the two VAXstations (2 x RZ23 + 8M ram),
and managed to get the silly thing to boot off the floppy.

   >>Netbsd vaxboot....blah, blah.
   :

But, when I typed in a call to the edlabel, it came back with some
register dumps and a file or directory not found message.

At least it seemed to boot.

Anyone know if it is possible to boot further and actually get it
to label and install a miniroot for testing?

Bob Keys




> 
> > 6.  Is there a more recent VAX port than the 1.3.2 port?
> 
> There are always the binary snapshots under NetBSD-current. Last I knew,
> they were at 1.3K heading fast towards a 1.4 release (with many
> improvements).
> 
> > 7.  Any pointers to VS3100 or MV3100 hardware faq's about?
> 
> There are a number of resources referenced from the NetBSD/vax port pages
> under http://www.netbsd.org/
> 
> -brian.
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> Brian "JARAI" Chase | http://world.std.com/~bdc/ | VAXZilla LIVES!!!
> 
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