Subject: Re: Disk image for VAXstation 4000
To: Asheesh Laroia <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Jim MacKenzie <jim@photojim.ca>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/27/2006 14:29:49
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From: "Asheesh Laroia" <asheesh@asheesh.org>
To: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 12:22 PM
Subject: Disk image for VAXstation 4000
>I recently inherited a working VAXstation 4000 with VMS on it, and I wanted
>to give NetBSD a shot. The system does not have a floppy drive, so booting
>a NetBSD install floppy wouldn't help me. Does anyone on this list have a
>hard disk image I can try putting on a SCSI disk inside it?
You can network boot quite easily. The installation instructions are
reasonably clear, but if you have any difficulty, let me know and I can give
you a hand.
It works surprisingly well. I wish I'd discovered network booting a long
time ago.
Jim