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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!cdc2.cdc.net!news1.epix.net!bman.uucom.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.66.12.35!news-in.iadfw.net!usenet From: Bill Harris <billh@airmail.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD on DECstations ? Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 09:18:24 -0600 Organization: Internet America Lines: 24 Message-ID: <32F8A4C0.41C67EA6@airmail.net> References: <5cvibj$h6g@ulysses.noc.ntua.gr> <5d34q3$hth@si-nic.hrz.uni-siegen.de> <32F7B575.167EB0E7@airmail.net> <5d9n2k$rnh@ulysses.noc.ntua.gr> NNTP-Posting-Host: biz6.iadfw.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5309 Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote: > > Bill Harris (billh@airmail.net) wrote: > : (and guts). Now I boot and install off of a Zip disk and I can > : get NetBSD up and running in about a half hour from a vanilla > : Ultrix config. > > Bill, > > Have you documented this procedure? I'd sure love to read it ;-) > > rgrds, > > -- Yiorgos Adamopoulos, <Y.Adamopoulos@noc.ntua.gr> Not really, I chopped it up and put the image on our ftp server, but it's not really the best way to build it. Let me see what I can get written up. It really works well. It's as simple as 'boot 3/rz5/netbsd'. I've actually got a zip disk that has everything to run multiuser, including swap. Bill