On  Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:38:32 -0700,
   "emanuel stiebler" <emu@ecubics.com> writes:

>Hi all,
>
>here are my experiences installing the 1.3alpha ...

>first, my machine: decstation 5000/133, KN02-BA V5.7j 48MByte DRAM, PMAG-BA
>Graphics


>On this machine, was no way to boot with bootp.
>        (buggy EPROM ?)
>        all i got was 
>
>        1032640?IO: 3/tftp, aout err (-5)

This looks pretty bad.  If you didn't see a spinning-propeller, it
looks like the PROM is giving up on the kernel before it's even read
any of the kerel text.  I don't recall seeing this PROM version in
Simon Burge's list, either.

Could you please try the cut-down nfsinstall kernel and see 
if that boots more successfully?

>what I've done to get netbsd1.3alpha running (walking?)

>1. got the diskimage via FTP (today, 13.Nov), diskdumped it on the rz1.
>
>2. boot of rz1.
>   set TERM to pmax 
>   try "sysinst -r "" ". I got only a Segmentation fault.

Eek. that is a bug. Did you do
	TERM=pmax; export TERM

and were you running on a framebuffer console, or a serial console?
If you're using a serial console, you need to do

	TERM=vt100; export TERM

or
	TERM=xterm; export TERM

(thanks to maximum entropy for pointing out that glitch in the NOTES).