On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Shengchao Li wrote:

> Does Netbsd damage EPROM of 3100/80? I heard that it damages 3100/90
> EPROMs. You may want to make sure that won't happen before you install it.
> 
> shengchao
> 
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 cv_vax@carnagevisors.net wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have just aquired a uVAX 3100/80, with decent amount of disk space, 
> > drive that takes the TK50 tapes, and a tape drive that takes the dat style 
> > tapes. It also has 72Mb of memory.
> > 
> > What would be the best way to install NetBSD onto this machine, I do have 
> > an external scsi drive which I could use, (I understand that there may be 
> > an issue with booting with this cdrom) making a boot tape, and then 
> > installing via NFS, or doing the whole thing via the network with the mop 
> > server.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Benjamim
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
Does any one know if this could be the case in regards with the 3100/80, I 
don't want to break it.

Also in regards to hardware for this machine, will any scsi cd-rom work 
(even though one may not be able to boot from it) with this machine?

Thanks Heaps again..

Benjamin