From the point of view of my lonely log cabin on the fifth floor
of a condo in Toronto, I can empathise with Brian! Having been
trapped way above the arctic circle with the prospect of missing
the last flight home on a Friday afternoon for want of a resistor,
that rings true with me!
My problem is that the res in quo does not have any working media other than 5.25" floppy, and no other machine has such a beast on it to make a boot medium. Alas, the very last of the downtown junk stores has closed and I have no way of buying a 5.25" floppy!
I have 35 nodes on my network, most are embedded systems, with
some PCs running SuSE linux, a microvax II and a pp11/93. Nothing
with 5.25" disk
Hmmm, wait a minute, I do have a NetBSD 1.4 boot floppy, maybe I
wil lsee what I can do with that!
I will plod along...
Mouse, your server is rejecting my emails. With respect, the entire IEEE email system is hosted by google, so may I suggest you do a deeper inspection of the originating emails before you reject?
cheers,
Nigel
Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept! Skype: TILBURY2591 nw.johnson%ieee.org@localhost
Ah, MOP booting. Haven't done that in a long time. As to its usefulness, Brian Chase described that best, on this list, 22 years ago: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/1998/01/20/0006.htmlOh, that's a work of art. Thank you for the pointer. In my particular case, in my simulator, I've found it significantly easier to get a DEQNA simulation working than an MSCP disk simulation, so netbooting is the medium of choice. And, since the KA630 ROMs don't do any other form of netboot as far as I know, that means MOP. Fortunately, all the pieces are there. My house network's NFS server even still had all the MOP configuration in place. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse%rodents-montreal.org@localhost / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
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