New York City BSD Users’ Group have put a number of their talks online in mp3 format and a number of them make for great listening. One of my favourites (and particularly relevant in light of yesterday’s post on the subject) is Michael Shalayeff’s talk about porting OpenBSD to PA-RISC . Grab it here.
For the past few days I’ve needed an OpenBSD machine to test some IPSec code I’m busy working on (more on that in a few days). At Jonathan’s suggestion, I toyed with using a VMware virtual machine, but this morning decided to use a spare HP B132L I have lying around instead. Unfortunately NetBSD’s hp700 port is not yet production-ready, so the machine had been running HP-UX 10.20. It’s a fairly nice mid-90s vintage machine - 133Mhz PA-7300 PA-RISC CPU, 64MiB RAM, 4GiB IBM narrow SCSI drive and Visualize-EG graphics. It could do with a bit more RAM, but 64MiB is more than adequate for my purposes.
Getting OpenBSD/hppa installed was pretty easy, but I managed to trip myself up a few times along the way:
To network boot the machine it was simply a matter of configuring my DHCP server to tell the HP to load the LIF image served by my tftp server. About half and hour after booting the installer I had an OpenBSD/hppa 3.8 machine on my network.
For those who enjoy such things, here’s the dmesg output.
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