Re: Booting DS5000/240 from CDROM

[Gordon Zaft <gordonzaft%gmail.com@localhost>]

Sorry to followup to my own post.  Still not able to boot.

I did a cnfg 3 and it sees the CDROM.  It's not seeing my HDD though which
makes me wonder if there's some weird termination problem.

G

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Gordon Zaft <gordonzaft%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

>
> Apologies, I've not done this in a while.
>
> I'm trying to install from CD (A -current build I was pointed to for
> testing).  I downloaded and burned the ISO.  My CDROM (not a DEC one though
> I do have one, but this one seems more reliable) is et to SCSI ID 6 and my
> HDD is set to SCSI ID 3.
>
> I tried to boot with
>
> boot 3/rz6/netbsd
>
> with no success.  I thought 3 was the device/slot # and 6 is the SCSI ID?
>
> I looked at ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.0.2/pmax/
> INSTALL.html#Install%20via%20a%20NetBSD%20CD-ROM
>
> but it does not actually tell you how to boot the CD there, which is odd.
>
> Help, please?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Gordon Zaft
> Province 35 Governor
> Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity
> gordonzaft%gmail.com@localhost
>



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Gordon Zaft
Province 35 Governor
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity
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