20 Aug
2007
20 Aug
'07
4:23 a.m.
Mr Ian Primus wrote:
CD booting from NetBSD may work. What I found was
that
tape booting NetBSD quietly stopped working YEARS ago,
and the FAQ was never updated. I spent a whole day
trying to figure out why it wouldn't boot before I got
the response on port-vax "oh, yeah, just mop boot it".
And at that time I didn't realize I had an ethernet
card.
For what it's worth, I ran NetBSD on my MV-III diskless for a long
time. It was considerably faster than running on RD54.
I expect that ESDI is faster than MFM, but running diskless would get
you around the 70MB limit. Running swap on the local disk would not
only be faster than straight diskless, but would exercise the ESDI
subsystem.
I've never run an InfoServer, but mopd on my Debian Linux box has
booted anything I tried against it, except a DECstation 5000-200. That
was a known issue with NetBSD.
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