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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!lynx.aba.net.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!pier2.bayarea.net!baygate.bayarea.net!thorpej From: thorpej@baygate.bayarea.net (Jason R. Thorpe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: netbsd on hp300 fails Date: 31 Aug 1996 05:21:07 GMT Organization: George's NetBSD answer man Lines: 52 Message-ID: <508i43$4o9@pier2.bayarea.net> References: <4vh0mi$c98@sheoak.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au> <4vtos5$3he@stratus.skypoint.net> <5057qs$4cm@sheoak.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: baygate.bayarea.net In article <5057qs$4cm@sheoak.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au>, Brian James O'Connor <boc@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au> wrote: >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> Sorry ... I jumped into this conversation a little late... (I haven't had the time to read USENET for a while...) >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. Ah, I'm glad to hear that you got it running! >The INSTALL doco is faily useless. You need to treat it with a >grain of salt. Erm, what exactly wasn't clear? Sorry ... sometimes when you write the installation software, it's not easy to then write the notes... You tend to not have a good picture of what's clear and what's not from the perspective of the consumer... I'm going to be updating the notes for 1.2 ... if you could point out some of the problem areas, I'll try and clarify them... >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) Great! -- Jason R. Thorpe - NetBSD/hp300 port maintainter -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@bayarea.net>