[Info-vax] Making a VMS 4.0 Install Tape

[Robert Jarratt]

"H Vlems" <hvlems at freenet.de> wrote in message 
news:b1f5f588-1839-4dd5-bc4a-c1e1ccf4fcdb at o11g2000yql.googlegroups.com...
> 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


I restored REQUIRED using BACKUP/IMAGE.

SimH is indeed an option, but I had a nasty experience with winpcap 
blue-screening my machine, so I stuck to the non-ethernet versions of SIMH. 
I am considering trying again as I have since completely rebuilt my PC but I 
am hesitant. If winpcap does not cause trouble then I could do this and use 
the SIMH machine as the boot server for my MicroVAX II.

Regards

Rob