On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Jules wrote:

> I've liberated a VAXstation 3100/80 and a VAX 4000/705A from the crusher
> at work.

Wow.  Those are pretty nice machines.

> [...]
>
> So in the mean time I was trying to push on with a diskless install. I'm
> using a FreeBSD x86 box as the mop/bootparam/nfs server. This is what
> I'm getting:
>
> ====
> show config
> KA694-A V2.4, VMB 2.15
>
> [...]
>
> > boot netbsd
> 1160552+56892+194872+[84828+99876]=0x185e60
>
> ?06 HLT INST
>         PC = 80103C9F
> >>>
> ====

I don't think there's been any support added to the kernel for the VAX
4000/705A yet.  If it's similar enough to the some of the other VAX 4000
series, Michael Kukat will probably be able to add in the support.  You
likely won't see this in an official release until 1.6--unless they
back-port the changes into 1.5.1 or maybe 1.5.2.  The 1.5.1 release is
probably getting pretty close to being baked.

It would be also possible to get a "-current" (development branch)
snapshot after the support has been added.

-brian.