Re: NetBSD/vax

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>]

I've installed from CD. The only requirement is that it can do 512 byte 
blocks, which does put a slight limit on choice of drives, but otherwise 
I haven't had much trouble.

But I usually have been installing over the network, which I find much 
more convenient.

Get mopd running, tftpd, bootpd (or dhcpd), and nfs, and you're all set.

  Johnny

On 2020-03-18 00:46, David Cooper wrote:
> CD drives are finicky on the 3100 MicroVAXen in my experience.  I generally
> use a linux box and dd the cd image to a scsi drive and install from there.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-vax-owner%NetBSD.org@localhost <port-vax-owner%NetBSD.org@localhost> On Behalf Of
> Erno Palonheimo
> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 4:03 AM
> To: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
> Cc: Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>; Anders Magnusson
> <ragge%tethuvudet.se@localhost>; Rod Smallwood <rodsmallwood52%btinternet.com@localhost>;
> port-vax%netbsd.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: NetBSD/vax
>
> On 2020-03-17 12:50, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 10:47:28AM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > > The system can be installed, and get to run, but it probably require
> > > some manual work.
>
> > I think fixed all low memory issues in the install media some years
> > ago, but of course new issues might have come up and went unnoticed.
> > Back then booting from CD and installing worked on a 3100 with 24 MB
> > (my only currently available test machine has 128 MB and I have no
> > spare SCSI disks any more to test installations - but of course we can
> > test in SIMH).
>
> FWIW, I had 8.0 running (slowly) on a MicroVAX 3100m30 with 24 megabytes of
> memory. I netbooted the installer and it worked just fine. I might reinstall
> NetBSD on the machine in coming weeks and can report how it goes.
>
> -e


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