3 Apr
2002
3 Apr
'02
12:47 p.m.
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Jochen Kunz wrote:
My goal is also to get Tahoe running on my uVAXen, more the the
learning experience than anything else...
Heh... I wouldn't expose any of my antiques to the internet... I've
got a PC running FreeBSD to take the brunt of the assault, and it
can be restored from tape in a matter of hours... The VAXen live
on their own subnet which is air-gapped from the internet unless
I really really want to ftp a file direct, in which case I power
up the hub betwixt them :)
On 2002.04.03 06:41 Clint Wolff (VAX collector)
wrote:
Excellent point... I hadn't considered netbooting...
True, NetBSD would talk to it, but it would
require NetBSD
running on a uVAX II so the drive could be plugged in.
You have to run it only
once to hack the Ultrix installation. Netbooted,
so you don't need to remove any drives.
I certainly
don't have the patience to run NetBSD on a uVAX II,
a wouldn't recommend anyone else do the same.
I installed 4.3BSD-Tahoe UNIX
on my MicroVAX III. Currently I am trying
to build 4.3BSD-Reno from that base for my MicroVAX 3900. (Exhibition
project for the VCFE.) This is real fun. These machines feel quite zippy
with that old software. But this old stuff is real crude in some points.
NetBSD gives you a slower, but very smooth ride on this hardware.
Unfortunately,
NetBSD (and FreeBSD) is rapidly becoming
unusable on old hardware...
If you want things like ssh ... you have to pay the
price. --
tschüß,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/