Another successful OpenBSD v4.0 VAX install
[email protected] Tue, 7 Nov 2006 13:00:19 -0800 (PST)
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.openbsd.vax |
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| 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