Subject: Re: 4000/90 installation - Cannot find appropriate discs. SCSI kernel
To: Marco Steinbach <coco@executive-computing.de>
From: nbsd <nbsd@righi.df.unibo.it>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/14/2001 15:49:32
There is no support for the scsi host adapter of VS4000/90 in the iso CD
image.
To install over 4000/90 I installed the whole system on a 4000/60 and then
I got the disk out and mounted it on 4000/90.
Rick
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Marco Steinbach wrote:
> Schur
>
> Now that I successfully grabed a really neat 4000/90 (128Megs of ram :] ), I'd like to install
> NetBSD on it. Since I am very new to NetBSD, I waded through the mailing list archives/docs etc,
> and made my way up to the point where I can load sysconfig from my CDROM (Apple CD 150, it's a
> Sony flavour).
>
> All goes well, until I want to partition my SCSI harddiscs (3 of them, I want to install on the
> external DKA0). Sysconfig tells me, that it can't find an appropriate disc. Now I've read in
> some postings, that there's no SCSI support in the 1.5 kernel. So I tried the kernel from
> snapshots/20000517 (as someone suggested, if memory serves), but again, no avail. Besides some
> hints on generating my own kernel, and netbooting it I found no further hints.
>
> So, my question is: Is there an ISO cd image with the appropriate kernel in existence ? And if
> yes, where can I get it ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> MfG CoCo
> BTW: Someone in knowledge of the test xx console commands of the 4000/90 ? They seem to be quite
> different from my 3100/30, I was unable to initialize DKA0 on the 4000/90, did it on my 3100.
>
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