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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!mccall.com!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!zippy.dct.ac.uk!str-ccsun!strath-cs!ftel.co.uk!bham!bhamcs!news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!rjm Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11,comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: MicroVAX installation hassle Message-ID: <RJM.96Jan25112123@swift.eng.ox.ac.uk> From: rjm@swift.eng.ox.ac.uk (Bob Manners) Date: 25 Jan 1996 11:21:23 GMT Followup-To: alt.sys.pdp11 Distribution: world Organization: Oxford University Engineering Department NNTP-Posting-Host: swift.eng.ox.ac.uk Lines: 38 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au vmsnet.pdp-11:4452 comp.os.vms:121141 comp.sys.dec:31981 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2059 Sorry to cross-post to the pdp11 people, but I thought there was a slight chance that pdp11 owners with TK50 tape drives may be able to help me on this one. As previously reported, I'm trying to set up a couple of MicroVAX II's. After a problem with my TK50 drive, which destroyed the leader strip of my bootable VMS installation tape, I'm a little stuck. There are two options for me, I think. One is to borrow a set of VMS installation tapes on TK50, the other is to go for NetBSD, which I understand is available for the VAX (no flames from the comp.os.vms people please ;) Basically I'd be very grateful if anyone with VMS (any version) on TK50 could help me out. Similarly, whilst I can presumably get NetBSD off the net, I can't get it on to a TK50 without having a running operating system! Thus NetBSD on TK50s would also be extremely useful ... Cheers, Bob. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Manners Osney Laboratory rjm@swift.eng.ox.ac.uk Dept of Engineering Science University of Oxford 01865 288762 Computer Museum: http://swift.eng.ox.ac.uk/rjm/museum.html Also: http://swift.eng.ox.ac.uk "We're all planning our careers, We're all planning our careers, We're all planning our careers, He says we're growing old!" - Jello Biafra ----------------------------------------------------------------------------