NetBSD on DECsystem 5000/240
Magnus Lindholm <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Jan 2024 10:18:31 +0100
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Hi all, During the weekend I powered up an old DECsystem 5000/240 and decided to try installing NetBSD. At first I tried 9.3 using the diskimage installation. This failed in a kernel panic, Older versions like 5.2.3 which worked fine, however 6.1.5 failed in a kernel panic similar to 9.3. Finally I installed 10.0_RC3 which worked fine! So at least if you're a PMAX owner NetBSD 10.0 seems to work better than previous releases, at least as far as the installation goes. Anyway, not sure if this is relevant to this mailing list, but I figured I'd let others know, being a bit unsure how many NetBSD/pmax:ers still are out there. Magnus