[Info-vax] Making a VMS 4.0 Install Tape

[H Vlems]

On 4 apr, 23:54, "Robert Jarratt" <nos... at nosp.am> wrote:
> I have the backup savesets for VMS 4.0 on disk. I have tried doing a
> BACKUP/IMAGE to a spare disk and booting from that, but it does not boot, I
> think this may be because the disk is SCSI and I am not sure which is the
> first VMS version to support SCSI.
>
> The reason I am doing this is to try to get a 4.0 system disk on my 3100
> Model 80 which I can then use to MOP boot my MicroVAX II. However since I
> cannot get 4.0 onto my 3100, and I cannot put the MicroVAX II disk in my
> 3100, but I do have a TK50, I would like to try to create a bootable tape to
> install VMS 4.0 directly on the MicroVAX II.
>
> I am aware that the procedure to make such a tape might be to use STABACKIT,
> but as I can only run VMS7.3 and I am having trouble getting a 7.3
> standalone backup to boot on my MicroVAX II I need to do this manually
> because I have no running version of VMS 4.0. I also tried using STABACKIT
> with p3 (source device and directory) pointing at where I have restored the
> first saveset of VMS 4.0 in the vain hope that this might build me a 4.0
> standalone backup, but it reckoned it could not find SYS.EXE in
> [SYS0.SYS$LDR] in the source, although I found it in [SYS0.SYSEXE].
>
> Can anyone advise how I can manually create a bootable install tape for 4.0
> using the savesets I have?
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob

This is really testing one's memory,isn't it? From memory:
- support for SCSI disks arrived around 5.3
- there's no support for SCSI in V4.0
- the savesets are called VMS040.A REQUIRED. OPTIONAL. LIBRARY. ,
right?
Which one did you restore to build a bootable disk?

Inicentally, why don't you use SIMH's VAX 11/780 to install VMS 4.0
with?
Hans