Re: Another successful OpenBSD v4.0 VAX install

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 01:00:19PM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> 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.

Mopd should set the interface promiscuous by itself. Could you do
some more experimenting, checking ifconfig fxp0 with and without
mopd running?

> 
> 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)

SCSI and MSCP are your options presently. In practice that means
you have to find a KFQSA card to provide a DSSI->MSCP interface
to make use of DSSI cards with OpenBSD.

/Hugh