Thanks for the answer!

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frts

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Kukat" <michael@unixiron.org>
To: "Istvan Gyenes" <frts@simba.sch.bme.hu>
Cc: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: VAX 4000/100


> Hi !
>
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Istvan Gyenes wrote:
> > A VAX 4000/100 will be given to me soon. (At least I hope :-)  )
> >
> > I'd like to run NetBSD on it and I'm curious to know whether I can use
the
> > latest (1.5.1_BETA2) snapshot?
> > Will the boot blocks work?
>
> As i know, you can't, as support is added just in -current and will so be
> available with 1.6. Boot loader works, but currently, you can't boot from
> SCSI. But there is a way to get the booter via MOP, and tell the kernel
about
> the root-device later. I use
>
> BOOT /3 EZA0
> [blahblah]
> boot sd(0)netbsd
> [blahblah]
> root-device: sd0a
> dump-device: sd0b
> ...
>
> ...Michael
>
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