RE: NetBSD/vax

["David Cooper" <davecoo%marmotking.com@localhost>]

CD drives are finicky on the 3100 MicroVAXen in my experience.  I generally
use a linux box and dd the cd image to a scsi drive and install from there.


-----Original Message-----
From: port-vax-owner%NetBSD.org@localhost <port-vax-owner%NetBSD.org@localhost> On Behalf Of
Erno Palonheimo
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 4:03 AM
To: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
Cc: Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>; Anders Magnusson
<ragge%tethuvudet.se@localhost>; Rod Smallwood <rodsmallwood52%btinternet.com@localhost>;
port-vax%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: NetBSD/vax

On 2020-03-17 12:50, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 10:47:28AM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> The system can be installed, and get to run, but it probably require 
>> some manual work.

> I think fixed all low memory issues in the install media some years 
> ago, but of course new issues might have come up and went unnoticed.
> Back then booting from CD and installing worked on a 3100 with 24 MB 
> (my only currently available test machine has 128 MB and I have no 
> spare SCSI disks any more to test installations - but of course we can 
> test in SIMH).

FWIW, I had 8.0 running (slowly) on a MicroVAX 3100m30 with 24 megabytes of
memory. I netbooted the installer and it worked just fine. I might reinstall
NetBSD on the machine in coming weeks and can report how it goes.

-e