[Info-vax] Making a VMS 4.0 Install Tape

[Bob Eager]

On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 09:47:00 UTC, JF Mezei 
<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:

> Bob Eager wrote:
> 
> > I had to run 4.7 on the VS3100 for local reasons, although 5.0 was out. 
> > I didn't have the CD media at first, so I booted it into a vanilla 4.7 
> > cluster and then installed vanilla 4.7 from there using the original 4.7
> > install savesets. No patches.
> 
> I'd be very interested to know more about this. Was this a diskless
> vaxstation or did it have a SCSI drive and did that drive appear as a
> DKA device ?

It's a long time ago! Basically our cluster was stuck at 4.7 because of 
issues with some third party networking hardware (not Ethernet) and the 
company had gone out of business. The drivers were not suitable for SMP 
(and the cluster included an 8800).

The Vaxstation 3100 was my 'desktop' machine, and was delivered without 
media. It had two 104MB RZ disks (which were SCSI) and that's all. 
Pretty sure they appeared as DKA devices.

I had no way of getting VMS onto it, so I did a diskless boot into the 
cluster. I then unpacked VMS047.B onto it using BACKUP, and then booted 
from the RZ to complete the install. Not sure how I managed VMS047.C but
I probably put it onto the other RZ and unpacked it from there during 
the install.

It's just possible I used VMS 5.0 but I strongly doubt it, because I was
very wary of running a mixed cluster.
-- 
Bob Eager