As in my situation it was the easiest way, I installed 'manually' the
latest snapshot (19991115 IIRC), after netbooting my 'new' VAX (dmesg
below) and using the kernel for ka660 up for download at
www.vaxpower.de/download/.

Netbooting and installing works alright. I do not seem to be able to
get bootblocks written to the disk though. Well none that work.

VMS is on the first disk (ra0). NetBSD on the other two. I've tried 

disklabel -B ra1

(as well as several variants with -b). There are no errors
reported. But booting from the disk (DUB1) just hangs forever.

Disks are ok, after netbooting I have /usr and swap on them with no
problem. 

Thank you for your time!

Marc Schneiders

[dmesg]
NetBSD 1.4P (GENERIC) #86: Sat Feb 19 21:15:56 CET 2000

michael@aphrodite.camaronet.de:/usr/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/GENERIC

VAX 4000/200
cpu: KA660, microcode Rev. 6
total memory = 49088 KB
avail memory = 42480 KB
using 639 buffers containing 2556 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
ibus0 at mainbus0
ze0 at ibus0ze0: supplying EUI64: 08:00:2b:ff:fe:27:7d:16

ze0: hardware address 08:00:2b:27:7d:16
device shac at ibus0 not configured
uba0 at ibus0: Q22
mtc0 at uba0 csr 174500 vec 774 ipl 17
mscpbus0 at mtc0: version 4 model 3
mscpbus0: DMA burst size set to 4
mt0 at mscpbus0 drive 0: TK50
uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 770 ipl 17
mscpbus1 at uda0: version 4 model 3
mscpbus1: DMA burst size set to 4
rx0 at mscpbus1 drive 0: RX50
rx1 at mscpbus1 drive 1: RX50
uda1 at uba0 csr 160334 vec 764 ipl 17
mscpbus2 at uda1: version 3 model 13
mscpbus2: DMA burst size set to 4
ra0 at mscpbus2 drive 0: RA82
ra1 at mscpbus2 drive 1: RA82
ra2 at mscpbus2 drive 2: RA82
boot device: ze0
nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP
ze0: starting DAD for fe80:0001::0a00:2bff:fe27:7d16
ze0: DAD complete for fe80:0001::0a00:2bff:fe27:7d16 - no duplicates
found
nfs_boot: timeout...
nfs_boot: timeout...
nfs_boot: timeout...
nfs_boot: trying RARP (and RPC/bootparam)
nfs_boot: client_addr=10.0.0.1 (RARP from 10.0.0.12)
nfs_boot: server_addr=10.0.0.12
nfs_boot: hostname=vax
nfs_boot: gateway=10.0.0.8
nfs_boot: my_mask=255.255.255.0
root on midnight:/usr/export/vax/root
root file system type: nfs
ra1: size 1274742 sectors
ra2: size 1274742 sectors