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



Den 2025-08-05 kl. 06:45, skrev Johnny Billquist:
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.
The boot program is available in MOP format.  Would that work? :-)

https://archive.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-1.4/vax/installation/netboot/boot.mop

-- R



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