Re: Two questions about the Vax installation guide...

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

On 2025-08-04 15:32, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> Den 2025-08-04 kl. 15:27, skrev Martin Husemann:
> > On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 09:06:56AM -0400, Perry Metzger wrote:
> > > (It's also not clear what the distinction between boot and boot.mop is...)
> > boot is elf format and not all mopds can handle it (our in-tree one
> > can use it just fine).
> >
> > boot:     ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Digital VAX, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
> > boot.mop: data
> Yep, intended for people net-booting from VMS.  Not so common these days 
> though.
> (Maybe Johnny?  Can you mop-boot NetBSD from RSX? :-) )

Interesting question. I would expect so, but you'd need to get the image 
in the proper format for the RSX MOP server. Doable, but I doubt there 
is enough interest to go down that path. :-)

But if someone really wanted to, I guess I could create a tool to 
convert images. VMS would use the same image format, I believe. 
DECserver images from DEC were possible to be provided from both RSX and 
VMS by the same file.

  johnny

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