15 Dec
2004
15 Dec
'04
2:30 p.m.
I know this is a bad subject, but I was reading an article about
windows nt and the influence dec had on it. In the article it said
that compaq kept development of windows 2000 up to 1999 on Alphas.
Has anyone here seen it running on an Alpha and do you know if many
people developed software to run on it. I knew they had NT on a lot of
architectures but 2000 is a new one.
Thanks
Dan
16 Dec
16 Dec
9:17 a.m.
Dan Williams wrote:
I know this is a bad subject, but I was reading an
article about
windows nt and the influence dec had on it. In the article it said
that compaq kept development of windows 2000 up to 1999 on Alphas.
Has anyone here seen it running on an Alpha and do you know if many
people developed software to run on it. I knew they had NT on a lot of
architectures but 2000 is a new one.
Thanks
Dan
Yep, Windows 2000 Beta RC 2128 does exist for the Alpha. As for
developed software, I'm not too sure if there is all that much. There is
a (currently quiet) mailing list for people who still use NT4 & W2K on
their Alphas. Browse over to http://www.alphant.com/...
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10:10 a.m.
New subject: netbooting from w2k
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Does anyone have any information or links to free utilities to do the
bootp/tftp/rarp stuff necessary to netboot machines from a Windows 2000
machine? I'm thinking specifically of a DECstation 5000/125 and the
VAXStations that I have.
I've seen some shareware utils, but would love to have something that's
actually free.
n.
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10:42 a.m.
New subject: netbooting from w2k
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:10:48 -0500, Nathan Schepers
<nschepers(a)govital.net> wrote:
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Does anyone have any information or links to free utilities to do the
bootp/tftp/rarp stuff necessary to netboot machines from a Windows 2000
machine? I'm thinking specifically of a DECstation 5000/125 and the
VAXStations that I have.
I'd suggest NetBSD/i386 as net booting server. I tried
to setup a
linux to net boot my vax 3900 but failed. I forgot the reason.
Unwilling to spend more time to solve the problem, I turned to NetBSD.
Easy and straight.
vax, 9000
I've seen some shareware utils, but would love to have something that's
actually free.
n.
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11:05 a.m.
New subject: netbooting from w2k
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:42:47 -0500, 9000 VAX <vax9000(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:10:48 -0500, Nathan Schepers
<nschepers(a)govital.net> wrote:
If you want to keep windows running i'd suggest netbsd/i386 under
vmware or virtual pc. If you don't have them then netbsd/vax under
simh I assume would work. I definatly works under vms to boot
machines it can even join a cluster.
Dan
Dan
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Does anyone have any information or links to free utilities to do the
bootp/tftp/rarp stuff necessary to netboot machines from a Windows 2000
machine? I'm thinking specifically of a DECstation 5000/125 and the
VAXStations that I have.
I'd suggest NetBSD/i386 as net booting server. I
tried to setup a
linux to net boot my vax 3900 but failed. I forgot the reason.
Unwilling to spend more time to solve the problem, I turned to NetBSD.
Easy and straight.
vax, 9000
11:29 a.m.
New subject: netbooting from w2k
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:05:27PM +0000, Dan Williams wrote:
If you don't have them then netbsd/vax under
simh I assume would work. I definatly works under vms to boot
machines it can even join a cluster.
I second that -- in fact, I've installed OpenVMS this on real
VAX hardware way, it works very well.
Grab the SIMH executables from here:
<http://simh.trailing-edge.com/sources/simhv33-0-exe-ether.zip>
Then grab the NetBSD/VAX 2.0 ISO here:
<ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/2.0/vaxcd.iso>
Follow the instructions here:
<http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/vax/emulator-howto.html>
Voila, a working simulated VAX running NetBSD.
Finally, follow the instructions from:
<http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/intro.pmax.html>
That gives you a lot of detail on how to netboot a DECstation
from a NetBSD server.
Now, I'm sure you're saying "Hey, that's a lot of crazy workaround to
get what I want!", but somehow I suspect it'll be more straightforward
than finding WIN2K mopd/tftp servers and getting them to work properly.
However, I have been known to be wrong in the past :)
Hope that helps!
Dan
-Seth
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17 Dec
17 Dec
2:45 p.m.
New subject: netbooting from w2k
Thanks,
I managed to find a package by Cabletron that does bootpd/tftpd for
windows. It worked fine for me to get a NetBSD image over to the
machine (even though the NetBSD-pmax pages suggest that tftp netbooting
isn't possible with my PROM). I'm able to start installing via NFS
served from cygwin, but I don't have enough space on my RZ24-E drive
(SCSI, 209MB) to hold the base system.
What I'm thinking is that I don't really need the full base system
-- all I want for now is enough of a system to run a tiny httpd for
fun... does anyone know whether there's a stripped-down NetBSD that can
be run, or another OS that's trivial to install via the bootp/tftp
method above, and is small enough to fit?
Thanks again for all your ideas.
Dan Williams wrote:
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:42:47 -0500, 9000 VAX
<vax9000(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:10:48 -0500, Nathan
Schepers
<nschepers(a)govital.net> wrote:
If you want to keep windows running i'd suggest netbsd/i386 under
vmware or virtual pc. If you don't have them then netbsd/vax under
simh I assume would work. I definatly works under vms to boot
machines it can even join a cluster.
Dan
Dan
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Does anyone have any information or links to free utilities to do the
bootp/tftp/rarp stuff necessary to netboot machines from a Windows 2000
machine? I'm thinking specifically of a DECstation 5000/125 and the
VAXStations that I have.
I'd suggest NetBSD/i386 as net booting server. I tried to setup a
linux to net boot my vax 3900 but failed. I forgot the reason.
Unwilling to spend more time to solve the problem, I turned to NetBSD.
Easy and straight.
vax, 9000
10:09 p.m.
New subject: netbooting from w2k
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:45:38 -0500
Nathan Schepers <nschepers(a)govital.net> wrote:
does anyone know whether there's a stripped-down
NetBSD that can
be run, or another OS that's trivial to install via the bootp/tftp
method above, and is small enough to fit?
The bare minimum distribution sets that
must be instaled are base.tgz
and etc.tgz. Everything else is optional. They should fit well in 100 MB.
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