[Info-vax] Making a VMS 4.0 Install Tape

[Steven Schweda]

JF Mezei wrote:

> > 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
>
> Yes you can. The trick is to put your 4.0 disk as a second disk on your
> 3100. (remove cover and plug in it temporarily if you have to).

   Plug _what_ into _what_?

> [...] my MicroVAX 3100 Model 80, [...]

> [...] an RD53 [...]

   I'd be a bit amazed to find an ST506 (MFM) interface in a
MicroVAX 3100 model 80.  Now, there's just a chance of finding
a VAXstation 3100 model 30/40 with an ST506/SCSI card which
had all the parts to let the ST506 section work with a hard
disk drive, but even that would involve a certain degree of
luck.  In a MicroVAX 3100 Model 80, what you'd need would be
closer to a miracle than to luck.