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Re: VAXStation 3100

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Thompson)
Mon Jun 8 17:05:46 1998

To: Thomas C Sobczynski <tcs@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jun 1998 16:16:55 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 16:50:03 EDT
From: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>


> I am the proud owner of a VAXStation 3100.  In it's prior life, it was
> a remote-booting satellite node in a VMS cluster.  I'd like to put
> NetBSD on it.  The official distribution (www.netbsd.org) does not
> support this model, but I heard rumors that a newer version is
> floating around that does.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

The official distribution site says it is unsupported, but my VS3100,
netbooting to 1.3.1, seems to think otherwise.  Supposedly, the SCSI
driver has problems, but on my diskless system with a serial console,
it works fine.

yak

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