Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 20:09:56 -0500
From: "Richard A. Cini" <rcini(a)email.msn.com>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Setting-up a Sun shoebox.
I finally got the various pieces together that I need to hopefully setup
a shoebox for my 3/50. I have a copy of NetBSD on CD-ROM, the shoebox, and
60mb tapes.
My question is this: what is the best way to setup the shoebox with
NetBSD? I thought about hooking the shoebox and a CD up to a PeeCee and
trying to create a bootable tape (I don't know if this is even possible), or
copying the 68k distribution to the hard disk. If you read the FAQ on the
CD, it almost sounds like you need a bootable system to be able to install
it.
Yeah, I think you would be better off netbooting the thing via
bootp rather than building a bootable tape. I have a couple 3/80's
here at home, and there are bunches of old 3/50's lying around at work
(the government owns them, they'll be there till the sun explodes).
The 3/50 didn't support CDROM's from the PROM as I remember, so you're
going to have to either make a bootable tape or netboot it. Do you
have another UNIX or Linux box and a LAN nearby?
J. Maynard Gelinas