[Info-vax] Trying to boot a MicroVAX II with VMS 7.3

[Robert Jarratt]

"JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote in message 
news:00186c3f$0$23337$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com...
> Wilm Boerhout wrote:
>
>>
>> SYSBOOT> USE DEFAULT
>>
>> This will *almost* allow you to boot /any/ VMS version on /any/
>> hardware,
>
>
> The question becomes whether the defaults will work on an 8mb All Mighty
> microvax II.  Not sure what the SPD says about MVII support for 7.3. It
> could be that 8mb is just not enough.
>
> BTW, to the original poster:
>
> There is a way to gnerate a disk based standalone backup. You could then
> change the LANCP or NCP database to point that node to the standalone
> backup hiearchy. (say you point the boot to SYS21 isntead of SYS1 and
> SYS21 contains the standalone backup).
>
> This is a much faster method than booting from a TK50 which is measured
> in hours intead of seconds.


I like the idea of using MOP for the standalone backup a lot! I will look 
into this.

Thanks for the suggestion!