[Info-vax] Clustering on VMS 4.7

[Robert Jarratt]

"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote in message 
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>H Vlems wrote:
>> On 16 apr, 21:50, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> Robert Jarratt wrote:
>>>> "H Vlems" <hvl... at freenet.de> wrote in message
>>>> news:d5f99808-85f8-4722-9a19-def78a5a1b97 at o11g2000yql.googlegroups.com...
>>>>> On 16 apr, 19:14, "Robert Jarratt" <nos... at nosp.am> wrote:
>>>>>> I have set up a VMS 4.7 machine on SIMH (using the 3900 emulation) 
>>>>>> but I
>>>>>> can't see how to set up clustering. The only cluster-related
>>>>>> procedures I
>>>>>> have in SYS$MANAGER are MAKEROOT.COM, BOOT_CONFIG.COM and
>>>>>> SATELLITE_CONFIG.COM. They all tell me "This system disk is not set
>>>>>> up as a
>>>>>> cluster system disk." I cannot see how to get started to make the 
>>>>>> system
>>>>>> disk a cluster system disk, can anyone tell me what the first step 
>>>>>> is?
>>>>>> NB For those of you following my MicroVAX II saga, while I wait to
>>>>>> see if I
>>>>>> can get a replacement CPU and memory, I want to get 4.7 going on my
>>>>>> simulated 3900 so that I am 100% sure that the DEQNA is supported
>>>>>> when I try
>>>>>> to net boot off it.
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> Rob
>>>>> When you installed 4.7, did the installation procedure prompt you with
>>>>> the question whether the system would be part of a cluster?
>>>>> Later VMS versions did do that and since V5.something, even if you
>>>>> answered NO, the system may be converted afterwards as a
>>>>> clustermember.
>>>>> But IIRC this was not so easy in V4.7 and earlier releases. It had to
>>>>> do with directory backlinks, I'm guessing here.... Anyway, once the
>>>>> question was answered, you were stuck with the result or reinstall.
>>>>> Hans
>>>> No it did not ask me. I saw these prompts when installing 5.4, but I
>>>> need to install something prior to 5.4 and the next latest I have is
>>>> 4.7. I will take a look at cluster_config.com on 5.4 to see if that
>>>> offers some clues.
>>> Note that anything below V5.5-2 is not going to support Y2K!  I don't
>>> think anything really horrible happens but V5.5.2 is the oldest VMS
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>> I don't think he'll be running mission cirtical applications on a
>> simulated 11/780 running V4.7 <G>
>> Other than that, V4.6 displays current date and time pretty well:
> <snip>
>
> I don't really expect that there will be Y2K problems on versions of VMS 
> older than V5.5-2.  OTOH, the older versions were not put through the 
> exhaustive testing that V5.5-2 and later received.  If anyone DOES 
> encounter Y2K problems with with versions prior to V5.5-2 they are 
> unlikely to get either sympathy or a fix.


I am most definitely a hobbyist, so Y2K is of little concern to me.