I accidentally emailed this to Greg instead of the whole list, damn
not concentrating on my client.

How would I get the thing to boot from a floppy? I copied the NetBSD
1.6.2 image onto a floppy and was just going to try that. I might just
do what Greg suggested with a spare SCSI harddrive on one of my
systems. There is more details in the email below.

Yours,
John

On Apr 8, 2005 1:49 AM, John Tate <kintarowins@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just noticed the same thing myself.
>
> I did notice the 1.6.2 boot.fs was small enough for floppy, however
> your right about 2.0.0 being to big I just noticed that.
>
> I don't have a DECStation anywhere, would I be able to do this from my
> OpenBSD machine or from Linux? I could install the boot image to the
> start of the disk with both if that will get it to boot.
>
> When I start up the system I get this...
>
> .
> .
> .
> KA42-B  V1.5          ...
>
> F...E...D...C...B...A...9...8...7...6...5...4...3_..2_..1?..
>
>  ?  C  0080  0000.4001
>  ?  6  80A1  0000.4001
> ??  1  00C0  0000.7004
> ..
> >>>
>
> Uhm, What do I do, from looking around its boot errors for the System
> Clock, Boot Controller, and Network Interface. (Network Interface not
> plugged in yet).
>
> On Apr 8, 2005 1:43 AM, Georg Schwarz <georg.schwarz@freenet.de> wrote:
> > > I am pretty new to the VAX hardware, but I am pretty good with Linux
> > > and BSD (I run a OpenBSD machine for my main server) and I have got my
> > > hands on a VAXStation 3100 M38, which is alien hardware to me. I have
> > > set it up so I can talk to it via serial port, however it gives me
> > > some weird bootloader 'KA42B' I don't even understand (references?).
> > > Nonetheless I was hopeing someone would be able to help me install
> > > NetBSD on it via the floppy drive it has. If I figure out how to boot
> > > it and then do an install across NFS or just FTP straight from the net
> > > I should be right, right?
> >
> > At least this worked for me a couple of years back (using local monitor
> > and keyboard, not serial console).
> > I remeber however that it was quite difficult top find a working floppy
> > image. I think newer releases no longer feature an image that fits on a
> > floppy disk, although the docs still claim so.
> > As an alternative, you might prepare a suitable SCSI disk elsewhere
> > (preferably some other NetBSD system), extract the essential Vax binary
> > tarfiles and put the correct bootloader onto it. That should boot.
> > This is how I recently installed NetBSD 2.0 to my vax, using a DECstation
> > to prepare the SCSI disk.
> >
> > --
> > Georg Schwarz    http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
> >  georg.schwarz@freenet.de  +49 178 8545053
> >
> >
>
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