On 30/06/11 11:58, Mark Benson wrote:
Hi Mark, you do know that one of the symptoms of being a VMS bigot is that unixes look
alike :-)
That's kinda like confusing VMS and Windows NT because they both have something to do
with Dave Cutler and associates ;)
Actually, when I typed the reply I had forgotten which host os it was. NetBSD is pretty
easy to install IIRC, had it installed on a VAX and an Alpha. Never did anything with it.
I have run it on a multitude of architectures. In all cases it's insanely easy to
bootstrap. Also they start you out with just the basic OS, TCP/IP access, SSH and no crap
to get in the way. Thus it was a natural choice for me as a minimal framework to run SIMH
on.
These days all vaxes run VMS as do most alphas. Three alphas run Tru64 though.
I have a policy if not running generic OSs on specialist hardware. If I want a generic OS
I use a generic computer I.e. x86_64).
All my non-x86 machines run their intended OSs apart for my zx6000 - I don't need a
third VMS machine and I don't have the HP-UX 11i v2 IA64 media that goes with it :(
File not found is a curious error message. It's as if there is a typo in a .conf file
in /etc?
Unlikely. The Ethernet works fine :)
/dev/ra0 is a strange name (for me and I know I lead a sheltered life ;-), what kind of
hardware is it (1000 Mb/s ethernet perhaps).
Whatever is on the D410PT motherboard. Probably realtek (hence the ra0 - follows old UNIX
convention of using vendor names for devices ala wd0 being hard drive storage named for
Western Digital)
Or possibly because /dev/ra0 doesn't exist or cannot be accessed by libpcap (does it
need root privs to run)?
I strongly suspect libpcap is missing. Pretty much everything is optional in NetBSD!
Mark. if you want me to hook you up with some HPUX media I'd be happy to.
Mark.
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