NetBSD/hp300 1.2

NetBSD/hp300 1.2 was the third formal release of NetBSD/hp300.

A maintenance release, NetBSD 1.2.1, was made available on May 20, 1997. It incorporated no new functionality, but contained hundreds of fixes for bugs and security holes. The rest of this page applies to both 1.2 and 1.2.1.

Jason Thorpe was the maintainer of NetBSD/hp300 at the time of the 1.2 release.

Supported Hardware

NetBSD/hp300 1.2 will run on most HP 9000/300- and 400-series machines. The smallest amount of RAM that has been tested is 4M. If you wish to run X, more RAM is recommended.

Recommended HD partition sizes for a full install:

partition	advise	needed
root (/)	15M	10M
user (/usr)	80M	45M
swap	(2 or 3 * RAM)	6M (miniroot)

(Anything else is up to you!)

NOTE: The hp300 installation procedure uses a `miniroot' filesystem which is placed into the swap area of the disk. The swap partition must be large enough to hold this miniroot image.

Devices supported by NetBSD/hp300 1.2 include:

• CPUs:
  • 68020-based: 318, 319, 320, 330, and 350
  • 68030-based: 340, 345, 360, 370, 375, and 400
  • 68040-based: 380, 425 and 433
• Disks:
  • HP-IB/CS80: 7912, 7914, 7933, 7936, 7945, 7957, 7958, 7959, 2200, and 2203
  • SCSI-I, including magneto-optical and CD-ROM
• Tape drives:
  • Low-density HP-IB/CS80 cartridge: 7914, 7946, and 9144
  • High-density HP-IB/CS80 cartridge: 9145
  • HP-IB/CS80 1/2": 7974A, 7978A/B, 7979A, 7980A, and 7980XC.
  • SCSI: HP DAT and Exabyte, and SCSI QIC drives such as the Archive Viper.
• RS232 interfaces:
  • 98644 built-in single port (dca)
  • 98642 4-port (dcm)
  • 98638 8-port (dcm)
• Network interfaces:
  • 98643 built-in and add-on LAN cards
• Displays:
  • 98544, 98545, and 98547 color and monochrome Topcat
  • 98548, 98549, and 98550 color and monochrome Catseye
  • 98700 and 98710 Gatorbox
  • 98720 and 98721 Renaissance
  • 98730 and 98731 DaVinci
  • A1096A monochrome Hyperion
• Input devices:
  • General interface supporting all HIL devices: keyboard, 2 and 3 button mice, and ID module
• Miscellaneous:
  • Battery-backed real-time clock
  • 98624 built-in HP-IB interface.
  • 98625A and 98625B `fast' HP-IB interface.
  • 98658A built-in SCSI interface
  • Printers and plotters on RS232 and HP-IB
  • SCSI autochanger

Notes

• 400-series machines configured for Domain/OS (400, 425, and 433), are not fully supported, notably, the keyboard doesn't work and the ROMs must be in `HP-UX mode'.
• SCSI-II drives are known to work, though this may require changing a jumper on some drives. See your disk's documentation for details.
• Serial mice connected to a `HIL to quad' converter are also known to work.

Supported Boot Options

NetBSD/hp300 1.2 supports booting from SCSI and HP-IB disks (SYS_PBOOT) and via local area network (SYS_NBOOT).

If you're interested in NetBSD/hp300 you should use a more recent version.

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