[HECnet] Which DECnet interfaces support remote, unattended, booting?

On 2013-05-17 21:45, Clem Cole wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net <mailto:b4 at gewt.net>> wrote: How were the VAX BSDs installed then? Standalone bootloader on a floppy? Often - that was the way. There were TU58 tapes and floppies from Evans Hall that can with your 4.1BSD tapes that did the cold boot. That code contained enough of a system to talk to the tape drive. It would make sense. But I never saw such a thing with the MtXinu dist I had, which forced me to type the code in that was in the manual. :-) Maybe it got lost/mislaid or MtXinu differed... Before Kriddle and Asa would form MtXinu, a bunch of us in Cory Hall hacked to a raw boot system, and I do not remember why. IIRC it was Asa Romberger that did that hack, and he might have done it originally for IngVax. I do remember Bob would come to test it on one of my 780's (Sprite - aka UCBCAD) because we have newer/fancier/self threading 9-tracks with vacuum columns (model number escapes me) than we had in Evan. Most likely a TU77 (800/1600 bpi) or TU78 (1600/6250 bpi) in that case. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol