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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!sgigate.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.tcom.co.uk!morse.ukonline.co.uk!bath.ac.uk!aber!news.salford.ac.uk!yama.mcc.ac.uk!bofh.dot!daresbury!hgmp.mrc.ac.uk!news.dcs.warwick.ac.uk!str-ccsun!udcf.gla.ac.uk !newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!news-serv.hw.ac.uk!torduff.hw.ac.uk!censjg From: censjg@torduff.hw.ac.uk (Simon Greaves) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: installing Sun3 from Viper150 - problems... Date: 23 May 1996 11:04:11 GMT Organization: Heriot-Watt University Lines: 38 Message-ID: <4o1gnb$pll@cn1.hw.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: torduff.hw.ac.uk Sun 3/60, 24Mb, PROM V2.8.3, Viper 2150s SCSI tape, NetBSD-1.1. I'm trying to install to the Sun from tape, downloaded the binary install stuff from sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk and followed the instructions for creating boot tapes. Here I had my first problem, I tried writing the tapes from a Sun IPX running 4.1.3, but it doesn't like 'bs=8k' for dd, so I then tried an alpha (DU 3.2D) which does support it. Tried booting (Sun3 with 2.8.3 prom _should_ boot from 150Mb tape?), the Sun rewinds the tape, appears to read a little and then stops, the tape light remains on. After a delay, the console reports a SCSI: DMA failed to complete, resets the tape and tries again. I booted SunOS 4.1.1 and successfully used dd to read the three sections of the boot tape to disk, and then wrote them to another tape with explicit eof marks between them. Halted and tried booting again, but the same problem occurrs. The tape drive is a bare Archive Viper 2150s (pulled from another non-Sun machine), works fine with the Sun in 'normal' use (ie tar, dump etc), maybe I should try a genuine Sun drive? Does anyone know if this _should_ work, or do I need to beg/ borrow a 60Mb tape? What's involved in installing from another media? I have spare disk, could I boot SunOS and install NetBSD to a spare disk? Any comments/help welcome, please email me: S.J.Greaves@hw.ac.uk, (ASAP please, I'm just busting to get this up and running :-) Simon