[Info-vax] Making a VMS 4.0 Install Tape

[H Vlems]

On 5 apr, 01:28, "Robert Jarratt" <nos... at nosp.am> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> >> 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.
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> >> 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].
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> >> Can anyone advise how I can manually create a bootable install tape for
> >> 4.0
> >> using the savesets I have?
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> >> Thanks
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> >> Rob
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> > 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?
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> > Inicentally, why don't you use SIMH's VAX 11/780 to install VMS 4.0
> > with?
> > Hans
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> I restored REQUIRED using BACKUP/IMAGE.
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> 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.
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> Regards
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Use it without winpcap then. A simh disk image may be used as an LD
container file. LD runs on AXP and VAX VMS so that way you can
transfer the file on cd.