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

[Silas <silas%nocafe.net@localhost>]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 09:47:55AM +0300, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, the problem was that I didn't have the file (or a symlink) with 
the MAC address as the name.  After reading the documentation, I 
misunderstood it was optional.  After I created the symlink after you 
and others have pointed, it worked fine.  Now I'll resume the setup on 
the next days.

One question: is there any reason on why CD-ROM booting doesn't work out of 
the box if (apparently) the architecture supports booting from a CD-ROM?

Thanks!

--
Silas