[Info-vax] Making a VMS 4.0 Install Tape

[Robert Jarratt]

<sampsal at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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On Apr 5, 12:28 am, "Robert Jarratt" <nos... at nosp.am> wrote:
> 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.

Is your PC beefy enough to run VMWare? If so, consider running SIMH on
Linux,
in fact I've got a prebuilt VM appliance for exactly this purpose.

Sampsa




Thanks for the suggestion, but I decided to try again and this time I have 
successfully installed winpcap on my machine, so SIMH is networking just 
fine now.

Regards

Rob