On 9 Mar, Doc wrote:
>> Linux/VAX runs on QBus machines? Dos it at last run?
> If I read the status reports correctly, it "partially boots" on
> several of the QBus VAXen.
Ohh! That is more than I expected.
> I may not have ever given OpenBSD a fair shake, but I've been less
> than impressed with it on x86 and Alpha. Seems in general to be more of
> a cult than a separate OS.
Maybe. I never used OpenBSD, but I have a similar impression. But this
questions are not the topic of this thread.
>> I would sugest to go to http://www.tuhs.org/ and get some old
>> 4.3BSD-Tahoe stuff. This is straight, plain, good, old BSD UNIX.
>> This will run fine on a MVII.
> Now, THAT is what I wanted to hear.
That 4BSD/Distributions/4.3BSD-Quasijarus0a stuff is quite easy to
install, once you got around the the *.Z != *.Z != .gz idiosyncrasy. If
your disk is a non-DEC / non supported disk (I think this includes all
RD5x) put a disklabel on the disk with a netbooted NetBSD. Also: You
can use the NetBSD bootloader to load the 4.3BSD-Tahoe kernel if you
can't get it to boot with the original bootstrap. You schould extract
usr/doc/smm from the usr.tar ball to get the setup document...
If you wane make a boot tape, write it with
PDP-11/Distributions/ucb/2.11BSD/maketape.*
> What about the Ultrix-32M that's archived there?
There is Ultrix/VAX? I only know about Ultrix/11 in the archive.
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tschuess,
Jochen
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Received on Sat Mar 09 2002 - 12:55:13 GMT