[LV] Now for some more noise , ok any noise ...

[Kim Hawtin]

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> 
>>  	Hello All ,  My Micro Vax 4000 (QBUS) just arrived in town .  So 
>> hopefully at least someone (me) will be putting a biot more noise onto the list 
>> over the next few months .
> 
>  Great! :)
> 
>>  	Before I do tho ,  Is there any Good or Bad news to share ?
> 
>  I am still around.  Not sure whether that is good news or bad news
> though... ;)
> 
>  My tentative plan is to go ahead with some VAX/Linux work once I am
> finished with the 53C94/53CF96-2 driver.  This has been stalled for
> several months now and meanwhile the time subsystem got completely broken
> for the DECstation, so I suppose I need to fix that first.  We shall
> see...
> 
>  Do you have any specific areas you plan to work on?

Does anyone net-boot Linux/VAX ?

I have a pair of MicroVAX II's under my desk that I've rolled into the study.
One doesn't have a hard disk or controller, the other has a pair of 700MB drives
with a ESDI controller in (i think) that OpenBSD detects but won't install onto.

I have managed to net-boot the Linux kernel on both but not get any further at
this time. I was hoping to get them mounting NFS root in a similar way to my
Sun 3/60's =)

I'm keen to get the BA123 VAX running as it has 16 serial ports...

Any thoughts?

cheers,

Kim
-- 
Operating Systems, Services and Operations
Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide
kim.hawtin at adelaide.edu.au
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