19 Aug
2007
19 Aug
'07
6:43 a.m.
On 8/19/07, Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com> wrote:
Well, Sridhar and I spent yesterday doing some
tinkering - I brought over my MicroVax II and we
attempted to load VMS onto it. Easier said than done.
I brought this Vax to Sridhar's house. The general
consensus both here and on the netbsd list seems to be
that the only way to boot/install a Vax is through
MOP, over Ethernet
If you happen to have a q-bus SCSI controller which supports CD-ROM
drives that's also a fine way to boot and install VMS. I did that
with 7.3 on my MV-III (KA655) and a Dilog SQ706A. But then if you did
have a q-bus SCSI controller you wouldn't be fighting with a 70MB hard
drive. Larger ESDI hard drives shouldn't be too difficult or
expensive to come by either.
But if the point of the exercise is to make the 70MB hard drive work I
don't have any personal experience advice there. I just download the
NetBSD 3.1 Vax CD a couple of days ago and haven't tried installing
that yet.