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From: Bill Harris <billh@airmail.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD on DECstations ?
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 09:18:24 -0600
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Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote:
> 
> Bill Harris (billh@airmail.net) wrote:
> : (and guts).  Now I boot and install off of a Zip disk and I can
> : get NetBSD up and running in about a half hour from a vanilla
> : Ultrix config.
> 
> Bill,
> 
> Have you documented this procedure?  I'd sure love to read it ;-)
> 
> rgrds,
> 
> -- Yiorgos Adamopoulos, <Y.Adamopoulos@noc.ntua.gr>

Not really, I chopped it up and put the image on our ftp server,
but it's not really the best way to build it.  Let me see what I can
get written up.  It really works well.  It's as simple as
'boot 3/rz5/netbsd'.

I've actually got a zip disk that has everything to run multiuser,
including swap.

Bill