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