Running the 19991115 snapshot

Joel Sutton

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Mar 2, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/2/00

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Hi,

I've just downloaded the snapshot from the 19991115 directory with the
intention of running it on my second 3100. However, I am a little
confused about which kernel to run with it. Can someone please point me in
the right direction?

I read, in the list archives, that a new snapshot might be coming soon. Is
this still the case?

Thanks, Joel...

Joel Sutton

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Mar 2, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/2/00

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Chris,

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Chris Tribo wrote:

> > I've just downloaded the snapshot from the 19991115 directory with the
> > intention of running it on my second 3100. However, I am a little
> > confused about which kernel to run with it. Can someone please point me in
> > the right direction?
>

> Which kernel to do what exactly? Netboot, diskboot based install,
> upgrade, or what?

I'm wanting to netboot my VS3100 with the 19991115 snapshot. So I guess
that means I need a recent netboot kernel...???

Chris Tribo

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Mar 2, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/2/00

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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Joel Sutton wrote:

> Hi,

>
> I've just downloaded the snapshot from the 19991115 directory with the
> intention of running it on my second 3100. However, I am a little
> confused about which kernel to run with it. Can someone please point me in
> the right direction?

Which kernel to do what exactly? Netboot, diskboot based install,
upgrade, or what?

Chris

> I read, in the list archives, that a new snapshot might be coming soon. Is
> this still the case?
>

CHRISTOPHER J. TRIBO

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Mar 2, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/2/00

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> I'm wanting to netboot my VS3100 with the 19991115 snapshot. So I guess
> that means I need a recent netboot kernel...???
>
> Thanks, Joel...

You'll need the MOP load image from the netbsd ftp server as well.
What you should need is in version/vax/installation/netboot I can't give
you any help on actually netbooting because the MOP implementation on
all
other platforms except vax refuses to work for me, and I don't have
another vax to try netbooting it with. I only have some MIPS pmax boxes
and I have yet to be able to mop boot them from each other or mop boot
the
vax. There was chat about trying to fix mop on other platforms with a
mop
image that would be able to load ELF and ECOFF/XCOFF/COFF format, but so
far
there isn't anything available except what people have written
hard-coded into
their own mop images. If this is off of correct I'm sure Brian will
correct
me. It seems to be general concensus that the MOP implementation needs a
lot
of work. You're better off using DD on another machine. Or floppy
booting
if you can get it to work correctly. (I still haven't, but Brian sais
that he
has been able to)

Chris

der Mouse

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Mar 2, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/2/00

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> You'll need the MOP load image from the netbsd ftp server as well.
> What you should need is in version/vax/installation/netboot I can't
> give you any help on actually netbooting because the MOP
> implementation on all other platforms except vax refuses to work for
> me,

So it's not just me! All my previous messages about MOPbooting
troubles were with a sun3 as bootserver. (Actually, it depends on the
client too - a uVAX-II loaded boot.mop from the sun3, but a uVAX-2000
refuses.)

These days I download boot.mop to the uV2k over the console serial
line; I'll be happy to send the program I use to do that to anyone who
wants a copy. It's undocumented and has a number of hardwired
constants that really shouldn't be hardwired constants, but it may
serve as a good starting point for someone.

der Mouse

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Olaf Seibert

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Mar 3, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/3/00

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On Thu 02 Mar 2000 at 11:22:07 +1100, Joel Sutton wrote:
> I read, in the list archives, that a new snapshot might be coming soon. Is
> this still the case?

It finished building the binary sets. However, the INSTALL kernel won't
configure. It looks like the device tree in that configuration file is
somewhat out of date. I'll try to find out how to cobble it together.

I hope I have done it correctly, this is the first time I'm doing this
and not everything went right on the first try, so I had to patch a few
things up a little. Perhaps somebody should try it before everybody gets
it and turns out to be just subtly wrong. Where shall I ftp everything
to? And why o why does ftp not have a recursive transfer mode?

> Thanks, Joel...
-Olaf.
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