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- From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-Pete French.)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: Booting a VAX 11/730
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.124000.5707@ohm.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 12:40:00 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.082201.21747@csl.sri.com>
- Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK
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- In article <1992Aug18.154708.21277@ncsu.edu> ms@ncsu.edu (Mark Stubbs) writes:
- >
- >Hello,
- >
- >We have recently acquired a VAX 11/730 with RL02 and RA80 disk drives,
- >and a TU58 tape drive. What we need to know is this:
- >
- > - How can you install ULTRIX on this beast, given the only
- > seemingly usefull installation media is the ethernet.
- > - Are there any bootstraps on TU58 tape for doing a kind of network
- > boot? (IE Attempt to configure it as a diskless machine at first?)
-
- If you have a DEUNA ethernet interface then this can be configured to
- boot the main processor from a remote machine over the ethernet. The
- manual isnt very clear about the protocol that needs to be implemented
- on the remote machine to do this, however. Might be of some help though -
- have a look at Appendix B of the DEUNA users guide.
-
- -bat.
- --
- -Pete French. (the -bat. ) -+
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