Bruce Lane wrote:
> 
> Setup on the would-be bootserver (an applicationDEC 433MP) went well until
> I tried to, as Brian's how-to says, do a mknod for the console device.
> 
> NetBSD popped back with an odd error. Something about the wrong platform?
> 
> My question: has anyone else succeeded in using an Intel-platform box as a
> VAXen bootserver? If so, how'd you do it?

To your general question, yes I have used various versions of NetBSD/i386
as the server-side of diskless VAXen activity.

The last things I've done involved 1.5 on both sides and I simply did a

	./MAKEDEV all

I believe on the server side in my new exported client/root/dev directory.

-- Ken