On 9 Mar, Doc wrote:
[Linux/VAX]
> The project is now on SourceForge, and seems to be fairly active
> again. But I have *plenty* of Linux boxen....
Hmpf. I don't like Linux. Pollute my holy VAXen with it horrifys me.
> I know about the *.Z != *.gz but I thought *.Z = *.Z ??
Read:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/Quasijarus/compress.html and the other
pages about Quasijarus to get an impression about the personality of
Michael Sokolov, the Quasijarus maintainer. Mr. Sokolov is a bit,
uhhmmm, "difficult"...
>> If you wane make a boot tape, write it with
>> PDP-11/Distributions/ucb/2.11BSD/maketape.*
> Sounds like I'm busy this week. :^)
Use maketape for creating the tapes, pre-disklabel the disks with NetBSD
and read the setup paper. Than you will have a smooth ride on the VAX.
Ahh, once the -Tahoe kernel is running it uses 7e1 on the console...
> ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/VAX/Distributions/Ultrix-32M/
> Maybe the maketape utils will work with that too.
Hmm. I think that you will not be able to generate boot tapes from
floppy disk images.
> Heck, I may end up having to populate the VS-II too (nice BA123 w/
> 3x RD53, TK50, totally bare QBus)
VS? You mean there is GPX graphics board set in it? Nice. I have to
build a new bulkhead for the GPX in my MV III...
--
tschuess,
Jochen
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Received on Sat Mar 09 2002 - 15:25:33 GMT