VAX 6000-460 booting saga continues ...

From: Johnny Billquist <bqt_at_update.uu.se>
Date: Sun Dec 30 14:25:26 2001

On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Gunther Schadow wrote:

> Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
> > We've run it on a 6000-440 for a couple of years here. Worked just
> > fine. This with Ultrix 4.4. We never upgraded to 4.5. But since the
> > hardware broke down six months ago, we rolled out 8650 back in. :-)
> > We'll probably start switching to NetBSD on it soon though.
>
>
> Ah, THANK YOU for that confirmation. I still wasn't quite sure
> if the 6000-400 was fully supported but now I know. Do you
> know if Ultrix 4.2 ever really worked on the 6000-400? I am
> actually planning to going back (for reasons of certain source
> code availability etc. mumble, mumble.)

No idea. Like I said, we've just run 4.4 here.

> > Only wished that the CI was supported. Does anybody around have
> > programming documentation for CI and HSC controllers?
>
>
> Is it not? It appeared to me that CIBCA was mentioned somewhere.

Major confusion here. I'm talking about NetBSD now...

> Another question to Jonnie would be if you still have an Ultrix
> 4.4 boot tape around? If so, I could still use it. I will have
> to change my transmission on my car instead of a Year-End party
> and there's other stuff to do. So, I would not mind being saved
> from spending a night cutting together my 4.5 boot tape :-)

Sorry, but no. We've never had it. We used a CD distribution, and don't
even ask how we manages to get that down onto the machine...

        Johnny

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Received on Sun Dec 30 2001 - 14:25:26 GMT

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