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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in2.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: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 16:17:26 -0600 Organization: Internet America Lines: 26 Message-ID: <32F7B575.167EB0E7@airmail.net> References: <5cvibj$h6g@ulysses.noc.ntua.gr> <5d34q3$hth@si-nic.hrz.uni-siegen.de> 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:5339 Michael Engel wrote: > > Yiorgos Adamopoulos (adamo@ajax.noc.ntua.gr) wrote: > : Has anybody tested NetBSD on DECstations? I have five of them running > : Ultrix4.3 and would like to change to NetBSD. > > Hmmm, well, I spent last Thursday and Friday trying to install NetBSD > on a DecStation 5000/200 here. Here's my experiences: > [I used NetBSD-1.2 from netbsd.wifo.uni-mannheim.de] > > So, I'm back with Ultrix 4.4, as we wanted to get the machine running (it will > be our student's WWW server here at Siegen Univ. !). I'd rather prefer to run > NetBSD, but wasn't able to resolve the problems ... > > regards, > Michael Engel (engel@unix-ag.uni-siegen.de) I've got NetBSD 1.2/pmax running on 3 decstation 5000/240's. Runs great. Installing the first was a real pain and took some gyrations (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