[rescue] Booting an APOLLO DN300 from a HP 425? Seeking SR. 10.3.5...

[Kurt M. Nowak]

Ian,

A DN300 will not run SR10.X.X. Period. You will need to find a machine 
that runs SR 9.X.X as the boot host.

P.S. Is your friend Josh? If so, I sold him that DN300 a couple years ago...

-Kurt

On 2/28/2015 5:12 PM, Ian Finder wrote:
> Hi rescuers.
>
> A friend of mine has a hp 425 machine we would like to use to boot a diskless
> DN300. Does anyone have ideas on how to do this?
>
> Our current plan is to set up Domain/OS 10.3 on the 425 system. 10.3 or 10.3.5
> appears to be the last release that will run on both the 425 system and the
> DN300 we are trying to netboot. (If we can netboot the DN300 from 10.4- for
> instance by copying the /sau2 directories from a different version, please do
> tell :D )
>
> In order to boot the Domain/OS 10.3 stock tapes on the 68040 based 425, we
> will need the PSK8 kit. (10.3 shipped before the 040 machines originally)
>
> 10.3.5 seems like it might install without the PSK if we can find media.
>
>
> Does anyone have images or tapes of:
>
>          Product Support Kit PSK8
>           Boot Tape:  019376-001
>          PSK8 Software: 019374-001
>          PSK8 68040 Software: 019362-001
>
> Or... A complete set of Domain/os 10.3.5?
>
> I think we just need the Boot tape, and PSK8-68040. These probably would have
> shipped with the 425 or 433.
>
> *** Alternatively an HD image of any 68040 machine running a version of domain
> < 10.4 should work.
>
> The tapes are alluded to here: (In an old CCTALK post :-D )
> http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/cctalk/2000-June/1039.html
>
> Any bits or wisdom would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Ian
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