Re: Two questions about the Vax installation guide...
Johnny Billquist <[email protected]>
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On 2025-08-04 15:32, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> Den 2025-08-04 kl. 15:27, skrev Martin Husemann:
>> On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 09:06:56AM -0400, Perry Metzger wrote:
>>> (It's also not clear what the distinction between boot and boot.mop is...)
>> boot is elf format and not all mopds can handle it (our in-tree one
>> can use it just fine).
>>
>> boot: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Digital VAX, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
>> boot.mop: data
> Yep, intended for people net-booting from VMS. Not so common these days
> though.
> (Maybe Johnny? Can you mop-boot NetBSD from RSX? :-) )
Interesting question. I would expect so, but you'd need to get the image
in the proper format for the RSX MOP server. Doable, but I doubt there
is enough interest to go down that path. :-)
But if someone really wanted to, I guess I could create a tool to
convert images. VMS would use the same image format, I believe.
DECserver images from DEC were possible to be provided from both RSX and
VMS by the same file.
johnny
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