Chuck,
thank you so much for such detailed info.
One last question: can I replace the DUA0
(RA81) with any current scsi hard drive?
I have one 2G segate scsi hd, can I use it
for the DUA0?

Thank you so much and Happy Holiday..

Hank Lee

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck McManis" <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
To: "Hank Lee" <thlee@home.com>
Cc: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 10:37 PM
Subject: Additional 4000/200 info


> At 09:12 PM 12/23/00 -0800, Hank Lee wrote:
> >I am VERY new in vax which means I have no idea what
> >it means netbsd not support SHAC DSSI Disk controller.
> >Does this mean all devices named DIAx are not support?
>
> That is correct, DIAx and MIAx (tapes) are not currently supported by
NetBSD.
>
> >If I cannot install NetBSD to these harddrive, can I install it
> >to the external scsi hadrddrive such as the DUA0 in my vax
> >box. What is the procedure to do the installation?
>
> Yes, you can install to the external drive. On my 3400 where I'm doing
DSSI
> development the SCSI drives show up as ra0 and ra1. If you have a CD on
the
> scsi interface it too will show up as an ra{n} number. To install to one
of
> these drives you need to write a disk label and a boot block. If for
> example you are going to install to ra0 then you would type:
> # disklabel -B ra0
> # disklabel -i ra0
> partition> ?
> (shows the help screen)
> The program creates a "default" label of the whole drive. I usually define
> a (32M, mounts on /), b (32M, swap), f (128M, mounts on /var), g (512M,
> mounts on /usr), and h (all the rest, mounts on /export) partitions.
>
> Then type
> # newfs /dev/ra0a
> # newfs /dev/ra0f
> # newfs /dev/ra0g
> # newfs /dev/ra0h
>
> Create a mount point and mount:
> # mkdir /a
> # mount /dev/ra0a /a
> # mkdir /a/var /a/usr
> # mount /dev/ra0f /a/var
> # mount /dev/ra0g /a/usr
>
> Now mount up the release sets from an NFS server and cd to that directory:
> # mount server:/export/netbsd-1.5/ /mnt
> # cd /mnt/binary/sets
> # foreach i (*.tgz)
> ? gzip -dc $i | ( cd /a ; tar -xvpf -)
> ? end
>
> All the sets will unpack.
>
> # (cd /a/dev ; ./MAKEDEV all) &
>
> Starts the system building all the devices
>
> # cd /a/etc
> # vi <configuration files like rc.conf, hosts, inetd.conf, ttys, etc)
>
> # sync ; sync ; sync
> # (verify that your makedev process is finished)
> # halt
>
> Now boot from DUA0.
>
> --Chuck
>
>
>
> >Once again, thank you very much for point me the right
> >direction on the diskless setup.
> >
> >Hank Lee
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Chuck McManis" <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
> >To: "Hank Lee" <thlee@home.com>
> >Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 4:16 PM
> >Subject: Re: Fw: VAX4000/200 Netboot for 3 days and still not work.
> >
> >
> > > So you are up and running now?
> > > --Chuck
> > >
> > > At 01:12 PM 12/23/00 -0800, you wrote:
> > > >Sorry, for overlook my exports file. A typo
> > > >caused the problem. Please ignore my previous email
> > > >
> > > >Hank Lee
>
>
>