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From: ekholm@skypoint.com (Mike Ekholm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: netbsd on hp300 fails
Date: 30 Aug 1996 02:41:57 GMT
Organization: SkyPoint Communications, Inc.
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I am at the point of getting the os on to tape. unfortinaly all I got is
one apollo (and a Macintosh) so far I got the thing to the hardist part,
getting the os on to it. I will let you know how it goes, good job on
getting yours up and running.
Brian James O'Connor (boc@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au) wrote:
: Mike Ekholm (ekholm@skypoint.com) wrote:
: : Brian James O'Connor (boc@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au) wrote:
: : : Hello,
: : : much to our disgust we cannot get netbsd anywhere near
: : : beginning to think about loading on our hp300.
: : : We have down loaded the appropriate arch distribution.
: : : SYS_INST will not boot the system.
: : : We have tried from disk, by NFS, by tape, and remote boot.
: : : We have D/L the distribution from three different sites.
: : : Has ANYONE been able to do this or is this just an elaborate
: : : joke.<please see above to see how disgusted we are>
: : I am just now getting now starting to try it, but I still need to get my
: : Doorstop( Apollo 425t) and paperwaight (Apollo 19" monitor) up off the
: : floor, and on the desk.
: : I will let you know how it goes (if it goes :-) )
: : --
: : ekholm@skypoint.com | http://www.skypoint.com/~ekholm
: : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: : "All I ask for is a T1 to my house, is that to much to ask for?"
: We FINALLY got it going. It turns out that the SCSI QIC tape drive
: was "passed its prime". We dug out an old 9144 tape drive
: (someone remembered we had one) and dd'd SYS_INST to it.
: From there we were able to boot, and get going via an NFS install
: from a local NFS server.
: The INSTALL doco is faily useless. You need to treat it with a
: grain of salt.
: Once we got it up and running we were very impressed. We have resurrrected
: a "Doorstop" and got a usefull machine( especially for 68K assembler
: programming)
: boc
: --
: ------------------------------------------------------------
: Brian O'Connor, Unix Systems Consultant
: Latrobe University,Bendigo
: boc@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au
: ------------------------------------------------------------
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ekholm@skypoint.com | http://www.skypoint.com/~ekholm
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"All I ask for is a T1 to my house, is that to much to ask for?"