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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news2.acs.oakland.edu!condor.ic.net!news.cic.net!chi-news.cic.net!cs.utexas.edu!academ!egsner!not-for-mail From: eric@cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: netbsd on hp300 fails Date: 30 Aug 1996 23:33:38 -0500 Organization: Central Iowa (Model) Railroad, Dallas, Tx. Lines: 51 Message-ID: <508fb2$rjd@egsner.cirr.com> References: <4vh0mi$c98@sheoak.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au> <4vtos5$3he@stratus.skypoint.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: egsner.cirr.com In article <4vtos5$3he@stratus.skypoint.net>, Mike Ekholm <ekholm@skypoint.com> wrote: - Brian James O'Connor (boc@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au) wrote: - : 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've gotten NetBSD 1.0 and NetBSD 1.1 installed on an HP9000/345, with a minimal amount of trouble. Needed to build the rbootd on one of my other machines (well, actually, I used an HP/UX system that was here at the time..) - 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've been working on getting my HP9000/425s running. First problem was to get it into HP/UX mode. To do that, I needed to attach a terminal to the serial port, and then boot it in the service mode. The internal disk being on id 6 threw me for a bit of a loop as well. However, when I put the disk from the 345 (at id 0) on the machine, it came right up, and is currently running. In fact, my news server is running on the 425t right now (and was previously running on the 345.) More details. I took the binary distributions from ftp.iastate.edu (make sure to transfer them in _binary_ mode), and put them on a local machine for nfs access. Network booting via SYS_INST came right up with the ``sysinst> '' prompt. Next step, using disklabel to partition... Fundamentally, I just followed the instructions. - "All I ask for is a T1 to my house, is that to much to ask for?" All I can say is that a T1 to the house is _nice_.. :-) -- Eric Schnoebelen eric@cirr.com http://www.cirr.com C Code. C Code Run. Run, Code, RUN! PLEASE!!!!