[rescue] Xyplex 1600 woes

[Linc Fessenden]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> ok, got a 1600 (thanks mike!) got an image (thanks james!) and tried to play
> with my new toy.  blew up.  linc found an OS image on his own.  so i snagged
> that and tried it.  no dice.
> 
> Ethernet address 08-00-87-01-8A-18, port 1
> Requesting network dump service  
> 
> Crash Code = 002C0002
> 
> and then hangs.  i'm supposed to be trying to load XPCSRV20.SYS right?  if so,
> then what could possibly be wrong?
> 
> also, i couldn't get tftp to work for the life of me.  luckily i have a VMS box
> here, so i threw MOP at it, and it worked.  whatever. :)
> 
> -brian

Dude!!  I just saw on a website somewhere that these things are supposed
to have at least 4 megs of ***ram inside*** to be able to netboot.  Get
out your screwdriver man.  I believe 1 meg 30 pin parity sims (what the
page said anyway)..  Looks like I gotta grab my screwdriver as well.

-Linc.