Hello,

I have never used a VAX before in my life so figuring out how to get one
to boot from a floppy is quite the challenge.  However, I came into
posession of a Vaxstation 4000/60 recently and not really caring to run
OpenVMS or ULTRIX on it, netBSD seemed like my alternative operating
system choice.  I have a few questions.

First, how do you boot from the floppy drive?  I followed the installation
instructions, and used rawrite to place a copy of the install program on a
floppy (I also tried using dd).  However, all my BOOT RX25 or BOOT FLOPPY
commands failed.  The light on the drive would go on sometimes but it
would never bootstrap from the floppy.  Unfortunately for me, the install
instructions assume a higher level knowledge of the VAX than I currently
possess - basicaly I have no knownledge :)

Secondly, regarding the video card - can it be made to work with a VGA
monitor in any way?  The card has three mini coax connectors and the video
cable has three BNC connectors on the other end.  I had hoped I could just
hook it up to a monitor I had that had BNC RGB inputs but apparently that
requires a vertical sync cable as well.  I do have access to a 21" DEC
monitor that was originally with this system but I don't want to lug
around a big monitor that can only be used with the VAX, nor do I really
have room for it.

Which leads me to my third question.  Does this VAX have serial
ports?  And if so, it it possible to establish a console on a serial port
of the VAX?  If I can't get the video working on my existing monitor at
home, using a serial port for a console would be my next choice
(obviously).  

The machine I have has a floppy drive (RX25 I think), two 1 Gb SCSI hard
drives (don't know the part #), what could be a LCSPX video card (judging
from a picture I've seen of that card) and 32 MB of memory.

Once again, apologies for the simpleton post - but I am a complete and
utter newbie with VAX hardware and firmware.  Any help would be greatly
appreciated, or else I guess the VAX will have to go to the dumpster.

Thanks,
Kevin

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Kevin M. Myer
Systems Administrator
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