Another successful OpenBSD v4.0 VAX install

[email protected] Tue, 7 Nov 2006 13:00:19 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.vax
Message-ID <Pine.GSO.4.43.0611071248410.22076-100000@earth>
Hi there, I decided to take the plunge and convert my NetBSD VAX systems
over to OpenBSD v4.0.   I was very pleasantly surprised and quite pleased
at how well it worked.
I did two floppy.fs installs on a VAX 4000-105 and a MicroVAX 3100 m40
and I did a network install on a VAXserver 4000/60

I ran into a couple of problems with the network install netboot:
1) the mopd server needs to have the Ethernet interface set to promiscuous
mode.   A quick hack to do this was to run "tcpdump", control-Z, then
mopd.   Just running "mopd -df fxp0" was not sufficient.

2) After I got the initial boot loader MOP-loaded...I could not get
the next step (RARP) working.  It took me about an hour, but finally
figured out that nothing was wrong on my MOP/RARP/NFS server, but my
home Internet router/firewall was answering the RARP packets and the
VAX kept saying "boot: client IP address: 0.0.0.0"
So I turned DHCP off on my router (a cheap Cisco Linksys box) and the
VAX netbooted just fine.

...now I'm interested in booting my 4000/200 and 4000/300 boxen
Question:
Can I install OpenBSD on DSSI disks or is OpenBSD (like NetBSD) a
VAX SCSI-ONLY operating system?
(not to worry... my VMS systems all speak to the DSSI disks just fine)

Thomas Dzubin
Vancouver, Calgary, Saskatoon