On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 08:18:32PM -0700, Ian Harding wrote:
> I have just become the proud owner of a MicroVAX 3100 m10 (I think).  It
> 
> was apparently upgraded to an RZ25L disk and a TZK10 tape drive.  It has
> 
> VMS 5.5-2 on it.  I would like to put NetBSD on it.  I have purchased a
>   CENTRECOM MX20T TWISTED PAIR MICRO TRANSCEIVER that I am hoping will
> let me connect it to my network.  I also inherited a copy of Reflection
> VMS 2.0 which I am hoping will allow me to get talking to it.   I have
> Linux and W98 machines on the network.
> 
> As I understand it, I need to get the NetBSD images burned onto a
> bootable media, or boot via NFS netboot.
> 
> Do I have what I need to get started?  If not, Is there anyone out there

Yes, you should be able to netboot from the linux box (beware, some linux
distribs include brocken NFS support and need special tweaks to work),
this should be the easiest way.

> 
> who would be willing to put the images on a tape (or tapes) for me?  I
> think I can figure out the install process, it's just the networking
> part I am not sure I will be able to make happen with VMS running on it.

VMS should't be a problem for this.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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