Hobbyist DECnet Network - Update

[Brad Parker]

"Tim" wrote:
>
>I do not have an QBus ethernet card, just a Unibus one.

yes, I realized later you had unibus, sorry.

>I doubt I can access RCP as it's probably not part of the root install.  But
>I could be wrong.  Why would it matter if I had a Qbus Ethernet card
>or not?

I just ment an ethernet of any kind.  I think rcp is part of the route
install.  I was for 4.3 on the vax anyway.  I could swear I did this for
2.11 also but I have used scsi.  I can check.

Basically all you need to do is bring up the interface with ifconfig and
then rcp the tar file.

in slightly more detail

- make sure the ethernet is at a 'standard' address; if it is the kernel
will find it when it probes at boot tim
- ifconfig the interface  (i.e. ifconfig qe0 192.168.0.1)
- create the file system on the partition you want and mount it
  (this may take a little study.  presuably you've got "/" created and
   loaded.  You now want to create "/usr".  You'll need to figure out
   which parition that is on your disk and then newfs the partition and
   then mount it)
- rcp the tar file to the mounted partition.  this might take a little
  linux goofying around, as you'll be root on the 11.  So in /root on the
  linux box you'll have to create a .rhosts.  My /root/.rhosts says "vax root"
  and I made an entry in /etc/hosts for "vax" with the same IP address I used
  for ifconfig above.
- untar the file.

This is essentially what the tape based installs are doing and should match
(in flavor, at least) what the BSD install instructions say to do.

-brad