> Hi All again.
>
> I have to say the Vax I got last week has been heaps of fun, picked up
> a couple of bits for it today, like about 20 backup tapes
> (unfortunatly not TK50 tapes) And a Nice VT420 Terminal.
>
> Anyway decided to let VMS wait for a little before I try and learn this
> odd but interesting system, (I am going to be joind decus so I can get
> new VMS media as the machine didn't come with any) so I have had a
> look at the other avalible OSes that are avalible for the VAX.
>
> A quick question was ULTRIX ever avalible for the uVAX 3100/80?
>
> The two "free" operating systems that seem to be avalible for the
> 3100/80 are NetBSD and OpenBSD (there seems to be a version of linux
> but it seems to be quite imature.)
>
> I now have had a play with both (and If anyone ever needs a hand
> setting up either of these just give me a yell.)
>
> The NetBSD install was realy easy, I booted the vax via the network,
> and then did a [ctrl] + [z] and then using ftp pulled the .tgz files
> to the vax and installed the os from the local hard drive. The only
> issue was that the NetBSD install was sparse to say the least, and
> after compiling a couple of things (which was quite slow, but no where
> as slow as my first linux pc ;) I decided to give OpenBSD a go.
Pkgsrc is your friend. Ckeck
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/
for your software needs. Unlike the ``Distros'' of the Penguin the *BSD's
are just BSD, with just the standard tools you can expect to find on
most/all unix platforms
>
> OpenBSD is great, still it doesn't have all that I want, but has a lot
> more than NetBSD. The install is a little hairy in places, and it took
> me a while to configure the FreeBSD i386 box I am using for a boot
> server (the OpenBSD net boot process is a little differnt that NetBSD)
> but the install went painlessly.
>
> To sum up, and sorry if this is a little off topic. If anyone is
> looking for something other than VMS to run on their Vaxes, I would
> reccomend OpenBSD over NetBSD.
OpenBSD _is_ NetBSD for the most part. It branched a few years back, but I
don't think you can even say they went their seperate ways-- they still
share code back and forth.
If you want to run the same OS on most of you hardware I recommend NetBSD.
It suits my sun3, sun4, hp300, nvax, i386, & m68k mac just fine...
>
> I Hope I havent bored you too much....
>
>
> Benjamin
Bob
Received on Fri Apr 19 2002 - 09:27:05 BST