> 
> > The preferred way to install at this time is netboot, with 
> > serial console.  Brian Chase's NetBOOT FAQ is an excellent place
> > to start.  Watch out for using RedHat Linux 6.x as a server,
> > NFS is broken.  
> 
> I am working on netbooting now. The only issues I have to resolve are
> getting a serial cable, and the linux NFS problems. Do you know where I
> can get more info on what kind of NFS problems there are in 6.x and how I
> can fix them, without having to use a different system?

http://195.148.172.4/~aw/vax/port-vax/msg01084.html

> > There is a recent CD image floating around too, if you have 
> > a CD reader that supports 512K blocksize.  I haven't tried 
> > the most recent one yet, but there are a few mails from the
> > last few weeks that describe how people have got this to 
> > work.  (Matt -- is there one now that is presumed to work
> > "out of the box"?) 
> 
> Now, I didn't know that the CD reader had to have the 512 block size
> ability. I hear that some cdrom's have a jumper on them? Is this true?

Yes.  I have an incomplete list of drives at:
http://195.148.172.4/~aw/vax/vax-cd.html

>         anyway, back to netbsd questions: So I understand that the kernel
> so far does not support graphix of any kind, only serial console.

The built-in monochrome graphics is supported on the VS3100.

>         But I also read about SCSI issues. Will I also not be able to use
> my local SCSI disk as root disk, booting the kernel off the net?

Yes, and you can boot from the disk as well.

> I will check on this. I have a little different question: NetBSD/vax
> support for it's hardware is relatively limited as we have discussed. On
> my local VAX hard disk, I believe I still have a copy of VMS running (it/s
> a 660MB disk), but when I boot off of it, at the VMS prompt, for almost
> any commands I type (I have the manuals for it), I get an error message
> saying illegal verb or command or something like that:
> 1. Do you have any idea why?

Ask on comp.os.vms.