12 Sep
2002
12 Sep
'02
1:08 p.m.
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Andreas Krennmair wrote:
* John Honniball <coredump(a)gifford.co.uk>
[02-09-12 22:28]:
The DS5000/240 has no internal SCSI interface or drive mounts. It's
less of a PITA to netboot than to manage external storage, even if you
*do* have that proprietary DEC external cable.
Doc, who would like a firmware upgrade too.
I've recently acquired a DECstation 5000/240, a MIPS-based workstation
made in 1992. I've got it to respond to the serial console (by
removing the frame buffer card) and now I want to try to net-boot it.
Why net-booting? I'm always booting VAXstation (I know, that's different
hardware, but from pretty much the same time, and I suppose from the
same engineers) via an SCSI CD drive. You need one that works with 512-byte
sectors. Fortunately, I have a drive available made by DEC for
VAXstations, but I tried it once with another drive we use at work to
install old Sun Sparc machines and SGI machines.