4.3 BSD Boot for MVAX II

[Rick Lindsley]

mike%cs1.wsu.edu at relay.cs.net (Mike Kibler - System Manager) writes:
    
        Has anyone developed a bootable 4.3 BSD TK50 distribution for
    for the MVAX II ?? 

Yes. It's been done for nearly 4 months now. Foolish me; I sent it to
Berkeley and they promised to send it out to ucb-fixes. Just a few
weeks ago, I met with a luminary at Usenix and was told they'd made
some changes and would send me the changes, and I should post them to
4bsd-bugs. But I've not heard from them since then, and yet I keep
getting requests ...

So look for the changes to appear in comp.bugs.4bsd as soon as I can
put them in order; couple of days probably.

The changes allow you to create a bootable TK50, and also a bootable
disk. The bad news is that it's a chicken and egg problem: since
Berkeley doesn't make TK50 distributions, you need a working TK50 to
create a bootable TK50. If you have an Ultrix machine already, and you
either have another uVax or want to change to 4.3, you can, with these
changes create a 4.3 TK50. If you are looking at a cold uVax with no
9-track tape drive and nothing but a blank TK50 and a 6250 distribution
tape, though, you are out of luck.

Rick