[pups] Re: PUPS digest, Vol 1 #148 - 1 msg

Send PUPS mailing list submissions to pups(a)minnie.tuhs.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/pups or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to pups-request(a)minnie.tuhs.org You can reach the person managing the list at pups-admin(a)minnie.tuhs.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of PUPS digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Installing Venix or 2.9bsdpro on a DEC PRO350 (Franco Tassone) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: "Franco Tassone" <franco.tassone(a)inwind.it> To: <pups(a)minnie.tuhs.org> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 23:30:08 +0100 Subject: [pups] Installing Venix or 2.9bsdpro on a DEC PRO350 Hi all, after having downloaded both distributions from a PUPS mirror, I was trying to install Venix or 2.9bsd modified for the PRO350. I've created for both distributions the installations floppy using a mvaxII with an rx50 floppy. The mvaxII actually runs netbsd, so I did a dd if=floppy.img of=/dev/rx0a for all the floppy images of the distributions, but when I go and try to boot the bot floppies of venix (and 2.9bsd too) on the PRO350, they fail to boot. The drive seems to try a little then the machine hangs, no messages on the console, except a nice capital DIGITAL, no messages on the serial terminale connected to the printer port with the maintenance cable. With venix floppy instead, after failing to boot, after a litle P/OS starts from hd. What am I missing, what did I wrong ? Any hint will be greatly appreciated. P.S. I definitively want to install an ancient unix on my dec pro350..., help me ! ... Franco Tassone