[Info-vax] Boot rx2600 off USB DVD?

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

christery at gmail.com wrote:
> ILO2 isnt it (hoping then it might work), mount your PCs DVD drive
> (USB or other), it might work... or is 2600 ILO without that
> extra ....
> just running some blade 860C and (didnt try it) but it might work.
> installing programs from the PCs DVD works fine, EFI boot I think asks
> for any media local/san and on my PC (virtual) but as I said, didnt
> try It.

I am right now installing VMS on my 2600.  I have the one
without management, but with DVD drive.

I have two install files, one is a .BCK file which apparently
isn't the right one.  The other is an appropriate DVD image,
and seems to work.  Even so, it took me a little while to figure
out how to do it.  I ended up CD into the file system, and then
running the appropriate EFI file.  The DVD isn't bootable.

Before I got there, I went through the EFI shell help options,
which include DHCP and TFTP.  It should be pretty easy to
install from a unix machine, though I don't know which file 
is needed on the unix machine in that case.  Does it
want the .BCK file to TFTP?

After it is installed, I will want to find out where to
get some compilers, such as C and Fortran.

-- glen