[rescue] Vaxstation 3100 and NetBSD

Jochen Kunz jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de
Mon Sep 15 05:48:03 CDT 2003


On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 02:53:22AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:

> >Netbooting VAXen is quite easy and _the_ method to get NetBSD on them.
>   Interesting.  I've never done it via netbooting.
Interesting. I have done it allways via netbooting.

>   Also interesting.  I've used sysinst on NetBSD/vax for the past 
> several releases, on many different machines, and have had no problems 
> whatsoever.  What brokenness are you referring to?  And how is it 
> possible that a sysinst problem can be architecture-specific?  I can't 
> think of any reason it'd need to be.
I read some posts to the port-vax mailing list. It seams that some 
versions have some odd problems. Especially on low memory machines
or machines with non-SCSI disks. (The later are architecture-specific.) 
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         Jochen

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