Re: Help about installing NetBSD on a VAXstation 4000/90 (Cougar)

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost>]

Den 2018-04-26 kl. 22:33, skrev Silas:
> > Terminal - you mean the graphic console?
> > Not sure if it actually works, I have only used the serial console on 
> > 4000/90.
>
> No, I mean a VT 520 I have connected to the VAX serial console (I have 
> some pictures of it).
Ok!  Hm, I get the feeling that the vax assumes the wrong console.
Booting from CD should work just fine.   Have to test it myself to see 
though.
There is a switch on the machine to flip it into serial console mode, 
have you flipped that?
> > MOP booting should work just fine, I use it (almost) daily.
> > Not that I speak MOP but the above looks to me as if the vax is not 
> > receiving any MOP responses.
> (...)
> > 7.1.2 should work just fine.  I can test this myself when I get home 
> > in a week, currently out traveling.
>
> I'm probably missing something.  What I did on the mopd server is:
>
>    # cd /tftpboot/mop
>    # wget 
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.1.2/vax/installation/netboot/boot
>    # mv boot boot.sys
>
> [1] refers to I "boot.mop.gz" file that I couldn't find.  Is this the 
> "boot" file above?
>
> [1] https://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/netboot/mop.html
These instructions are quite correct, even somewhat ancient.
A few notes:
- No need to have the boot program converted to mop format, on (modern) 
NetBSD mopd will take care of that.
- If you want to convert it to mop format, there is a command mopcopy 
that will do it for you.

Ensure that you have set the correct MAX accress in the lonk to the boot 
program.

-- Ragge