[rescue] DECstation

Kenneth Dunn luser at xtra.co.nz
Fri Apr 26 03:01:39 CDT 2002


On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Kenneth Dunn wrote:
> 
> > My DECStation is now up and running NetBSD:-) Took the easy way out and
> > wrote a disk image to a drive then installed via ftp.
> 
> That's still one of the best ways to do it.  I usually don't have much
> luck netbooting them, because of various PROM bugs.

Which really SUCKS. Ideally I'd like to netboot the computer via bootp
or mop. The firmware was so well tested that the bootp/tftp code 
generates a CPU exception. 



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