Bassoonbloke
Experienced Member
Greetings all,
I've put together a MicroVAX II from bits (mainly from Ebay). I have:-
BA23 QBus
M7606 MVII CPU
M7609 Memory boards (X2) for a total of 16mb
M7555 HDD/FDD controller board
M3107 8X Serial I/O board.
I also have a Seagate ST 412 HDD which is compatible with the M7555 controller card.
Console Control panel with serial port going to PC acting as a terminal.
The system will go through diagnostics and drop me at a Chevron prompt (so far so good). But I need to be able to format the HDD and then get an OS onto it, NetBsd or something similar.
Most of the stuff that I have read relies on the Vax end having a network card being installed (DELQA), which I don't have !!
Has anyone found a way of doing this?
If so, would they please enlighten me !!
Is it possible in some way via an emulator running on a PC?
Cheers for any info,
Alan.
I've put together a MicroVAX II from bits (mainly from Ebay). I have:-
BA23 QBus
M7606 MVII CPU
M7609 Memory boards (X2) for a total of 16mb
M7555 HDD/FDD controller board
M3107 8X Serial I/O board.
I also have a Seagate ST 412 HDD which is compatible with the M7555 controller card.
Console Control panel with serial port going to PC acting as a terminal.
The system will go through diagnostics and drop me at a Chevron prompt (so far so good). But I need to be able to format the HDD and then get an OS onto it, NetBsd or something similar.
Most of the stuff that I have read relies on the Vax end having a network card being installed (DELQA), which I don't have !!
Has anyone found a way of doing this?
If so, would they please enlighten me !!
Is it possible in some way via an emulator running on a PC?
Cheers for any info,
Alan.