> Hi folks...
> 
> Seem to be having trouble netbooting my VS2000:
> 
> >> NetBSD/vax boot [Oct 23 1999 16:44:26] <<
> >> Press any key to abort autoboot 5
> Trying BOOTP
> bootp: no reply
> Trying BOOTPARAMS
> boot: client IP address: 129.99.33.202
> boot: client name: nasvax.nas.nasa.gov
> root addr=129.99.33.130 path=/u4/diskless/nasvax
> @@@@@@@@@700416+38912+75784+[59340Boot failed: Input/output error
> > 
> 
> I haven't tried to boot it for ... quite some time, and was attempting
> to boot the November snapshot...
> 
Either the kernel you tries to boot isn't full size, or you have dug up
a very old boot program, or something. The latter seems unlikely.

Where does the '@' comes from?

If you can't find any other error, try to boot a stripped kernel just
to get going...

-- Ragge