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From: boc@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au (Brian James O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: netbsd on hp300 fails
Date: 29 Aug 1996 23:07:08 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University, Bendigo
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Mike Ekholm (ekholm@skypoint.com) wrote:
: Brian James O'Connor (boc@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au) wrote:
: : Hello,
: : much to our disgust we cannot get netbsd anywhere near
: : beginning to think about loading on our hp300.
: : We have down loaded the appropriate arch distribution.
: : SYS_INST will not boot the system.
: : We have tried from disk, by NFS, by tape, and remote boot.
: : We have D/L the distribution from three different sites.
: : Has ANYONE been able to do this or is this just an elaborate
: : joke.<please see above to see how disgusted we are>
: I am just now getting now starting to try it, but I still need to get my
: Doorstop( Apollo 425t) and paperwaight (Apollo 19" monitor) up off the
: floor, and on the desk.
: I will let you know how it goes (if it goes :-) )
: --
: ekholm@skypoint.com | http://www.skypoint.com/~ekholm
: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: "All I ask for is a T1 to my house, is that to much to ask for?"
We FINALLY got it going. It turns out that the SCSI QIC tape drive
was "passed its prime". We dug out an old 9144 tape drive
(someone remembered we had one) and dd'd SYS_INST to it.
From there we were able to boot, and get going via an NFS install
from a local NFS server.
The INSTALL doco is faily useless. You need to treat it with a
grain of salt.
Once we got it up and running we were very impressed. We have resurrrected
a "Doorstop" and got a usefull machine( especially for 68K assembler
programming)
boc
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Brian O'Connor, Unix Systems Consultant
Latrobe University,Bendigo
boc@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au
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