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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!hunter.premier.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!news2.noc.netcom.net!noc.netcom.net!news.voicenet.com!omni2.voicenet.com!not-for-mail From: melody@voicenet.com (Melody) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing NetBSD-1.1 on a Sun 3/60. Need help Date: 2 Aug 1996 12:44:09 -0400 Organization: VoiceNet Internet Access Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4ttb8p$69f@omni2.voicenet.com> References: <4tj2u9$430@omni2.voicenet.com> <4tlfdi$lds@news.pinc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: omni2.voicenet.com In article <4tlfdi$lds@news.pinc.com>, John Nemeth <jnemeth@cue.bc.ca> wrote: >In article <4tj2u9$430@omni2.voicenet.com> melody@voicenet.com (Melody) writes: >>Hi. I'm trying to install NetBSD on a Sun 3/60. I'm attempting to install >>the machine off of QIC-24 tapes built on a Sol2.5 machine using an Archive >>Viper (I believe) 150MB SCSI tape drive. > > QIC150 tape drives can't write QIC24 tapes. If you do try to >write on a QIC24 tape, they will write QIC120 format, which a QIC24 >tape drive can't read. John, thank you for that tidbit of information. :) I also received a reply via email about this same thing. :) (Unfortunately, I do not remember the replier's address :( ) What I ended up doing was to place the 3/60 on the network here at work and turn my SS10 into a diskless workstation boot server. When I followed the instructions for booting the 3/60, it got it's IP correctly from RARP, and loaded the netload program from the tftp directory, however, it then started looking for it's IP again for it's Ethernet address.. and then hung. So, as far as I can tell, the instructions in the install document are just wrong, or I'm missing something somewhere... To get the machine booted, however, what I did do is I got the SunOS 4.1.1 bootblock from someone else and had the 3/60 boot off of the network using that file.. I also moved the netbsd-r file to vmunix.. and voila! Everything worked.. :) I'm now the proud owner of a 3/60 running NetBSD. :) I even have a huge 4GB drive connected to it. :P :) In the future, however, I'm going to have the 3/60 boot from the network and move the 4 GB drive to the SS1+ I'm hoping to get. :) Melody -- Melody Lynn Yoon Systems Administration melody@voicenet.com "Our children know everything... We have cable." -- Charles in Charge Member of Team Internet Paintball -- I just forget my ID # PGP Key: finger -l melody@voicenet.com