Subject: Re: installing NetBSD from CD
To: None <kees.stravers@iae.nl>
From: Ian Miller <ian@millerfam.freeserve.co.uk>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/04/2001 08:59:03
Where do I get the new  ISO image?
A friend downloaded it for me and wrote the CDR so I don't know exactly
where he got it.

-----Original Message-----
From: kees.stravers@iae.nl <kees.stravers@iae.nl>
To: ian@millerfam.freeserve.co.uk <ian@millerfam.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: 31 January 2001 23:18
Subject: Re: installing NetBSD from CD


>On 2001-01-31 ian@millerfam.freeserve.co.uk said to kees.stravers@iae.nl
>   >>I'm trying and failing to install NetBSD from CD. I boot the cd
>   >>and run through the installation without errors taking the default
>   >answers/answering
>   >>yes. all appears to go fine then the vax reboots, announces NetBSD,
>   >the last
>   >>message displayed is
>   >>boot netbsd
>   >>then nothing happens
>   >>I have tried this on MV3100-80, MV3100-40, MV3100-M38. Same result
>   >>every time. I guess I'm missing some basic step but don't know
>   >>what it may be. This is will be my first UNIX system. I'm a VMS
>   >Systems guy really. >
>   >>Anyone help?
>
>Are you using the new or the old NetBSD/VAX CD image? The old image did
>exactly this on my VS3100. When I downloaded the latest ISO image the
>install went flawless. I noted the old CD installed an older kernel on
>the hard disk than the one it used to boot itself, maybe that is why
>it didn't work.
>Kees.
>
>
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