From: gregg.drwho8@gmail.com (Gregg Levine)
Subject: [TUHS] Bringing up any 4.3BSD on a MicroVAX without tape....
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:25:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18d205ed0510182125t372868abq6f5ed051bf67409f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0510190352.AA14346@ivan.Harhan.ORG>
Hello from Gregg C Levine
I have here a DEC VAXstation 3100M76.
It is in the same boat as the one Robert is writing about. I know I
can install NetBSD/vax on it using the net boot concept. But I'd like
to run one of the appropriate distributions from "our" collection. Any
suggestions?
--
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
messages in English in the Moscow subway."
On 10/18/05, Michael Sokolov <msokolov at ivan.harhan.org> wrote:
> robertdkeys at aol.com wrote:
>
> > The problem is that it won't install boot blocks that work.
> > None of the raboot/rdboot/bootra/bootrd combos get
> > any farther than the cryptic "loading boot" message.
>
> The "loading boot" message comes from the bootblock code and indicates
> that the bootblocks are good and working. If it stops there, it means
> that you are missing the /boot file in the root filesystem (that's what
> it's loading).
>
> MS
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-19 4:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-19 3:52 Michael Sokolov
2005-10-19 4:25 ` Gregg Levine [this message]
2005-10-19 17:28 ` robertdkeys
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2005-10-21 12:31 Jose R Valverde
2005-10-20 16:57 Michael Sokolov
2005-10-20 7:36 Aharon Robbins
2005-10-20 15:04 ` robertdkeys
2005-10-21 7:52 ` Jochen Kunz
2005-10-15 15:49 [TUHS] Ancient unixes Gregg C Levine
2005-10-19 3:00 ` [TUHS] Bringing up any 4.3BSD on a MicroVAX without tape robertdkeys
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