Subject: Re: NetBSD on Jensen, restarting..
To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 10/14/1997 10:58:48
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997 18:49:01 +0100 (MET)
Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> wrote:
> I currently have D-Unix on the first disk, NetBSD 1.2 on the second.
> I can use D-Unix to drop test kernels, generated by the Multia, onto
> the Jensen's NetBSD disk.
>
> Isn't that an easier approach than netbooting? It's probably easier
> for me to get a Adaptec 1742A driver working than a DE422 one (I've
> done SCSI drivers in the distant past, networking drivers are unchartered
> territory).
You need to _not_ be using NetBSD 1.2. If you use -current, not only
with the 1742 probably Just Work, but I think the DE422 is supported,
as well.
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