The difficult thing is to bootstrap the machine. If you have a boot PBAY rather than a fixed bootbay, and another NUMA running ptx, it's pretty easy. Your basic steps are:
1. dd the image of the boot floppy diskette over the start of the HDD
in SCSI ID 0. Make sure the boot image supports your SCSI card (we
normally use the qlogic) - try dosutils/autoboot/cdboot.img from the
RedHat 7.1 CD). You can't boot of CD. Yet.
2. Flash all quads with the new lynxer.elf.
3. Switch VCS into NT mode.
Step 1 can be mildly hard to do if you don't have any spare machines to flash on. If you still have a PTX install on the NUMA and a spare disk, you can do it from there too. If you only have a bootbay with non-removable disks, that's your only choice (good luck).
Turn on CONFIG_MULTIQUAD, recompile, reboot.
Last updated: 10/25/01 Any problems, additions, etc , please send email to Martin J. Bligh.