Re: HP Apollo 425e

On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 13:46, Arne Hoffmann wrote:
> # Kevin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > > > [HP Apollo 9000/425e]
> > No, you cannot plug anything into it - Its all onboard. Nice box though.
> > Installation is a little bit difficullt, but it is possible. You have to
> > operate them headless, and serial port doesn't really work either. If
> > somebody is interested, I could wip up a little howto how to install these
> > boxen. I have installed NetBSD on one here and it works a treat.
> 
> I would be *very* interested. Lately I got two of these 425e and would
> really like to get them running. 

Ok, I just browsed through the info on the NetBSD homepage and I saw
that all information is basically there. Look at the Diskless HOWTO
(esp. the hp300 section), then look at Setting up Remote Access Without
Any Console
(http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/files.nocons.html).
This is all thats needed for the 425e.

Should this be noted anywhere on the supported machines page or on the
main hp300 port page?


> 
> As far as I understood there is no possibility to redirect the boot rom
> messages to the serial port and also NetBSD doesn't support the framebuffer
> device on these machines ... so I really don't know how to start.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Arne
>