Subject: Re: I have one Vax to install NetBSD (Newbie)
To: None <dankolb@ox.compsoc.net>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/19/2000 09:50:43
> 
> > In the server room i cant found the tapes of this machine, can i netboot
> > this old pal???? in all the docs about netbooting there is no comment
> > about this machine.
> 
> I think it depends on the ethernet card that's in there. Just follow
> through the netbooting procedure described in the HOWTO, and hope it
> works. Various people seem to have trouble netbooting though (myself
> included).
> 
You should be able to netboot from the builtin interface (ESA0), but
support for it is only in -current, not any 1.4.x release. (Well, the
CPU is supported but you must have a qbus ethernet card to use it).

-- Ragge