DECstation 5000/240

From: Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Thu Sep 12 17:08:01 2002

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Andreas Krennmair wrote:

> * John Honniball <coredump_at_gifford.co.uk> [02-09-12 22:28]:
> >
> > I've recently acquired a DECstation 5000/240, a MIPS-based workstation
> > made in 1992. I've got it to respond to the serial console (by
> > removing the frame buffer card) and now I want to try to net-boot it.
>
> Why net-booting? I'm always booting VAXstation (I know, that's different
> hardware, but from pretty much the same time, and I suppose from the
> same engineers) via an SCSI CD drive. You need one that works with 512-byte
> sectors. Fortunately, I have a drive available made by DEC for
> VAXstations, but I tried it once with another drive we use at work to
> install old Sun Sparc machines and SGI machines.

  The DS5000/240 has no internal SCSI interface or drive mounts. It's
less of a PITA to netboot than to manage external storage, even if you
*do* have that proprietary DEC external cable.

        Doc, who would like a firmware upgrade too.
Received on Thu Sep 12 2002 - 17:08:01 BST