[Info-vax] Good/best version of (Open)VMS for a VAXstation 2000?

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <1fe986a8-be6a-4ac4-b764-24019caa4444 at z37g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>,
Hans Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes:
> 
> So if you have a CD with VMS 4.7 on it then you'd also need VMS 4.6 to
> make this work.
> The  VS2000 has no CDrom drive capability. 

So it's probably better to revert to good old tapes?
I hear there are tape images of old VMS versions out there.
I also have a TK50 drive sitting around somewhere,
but probably not enough empty media. 


> The procedure to get VMS
> installed is very timeconsuming,
 
if it's running unattended this shouldn't be much of a problem,
however, if I have to intervene every three minutes,
that would be a pita.
 
> then again if you want to run a VS2000 then this shouldn't bother
> you ;-).
 
I'm not going to run climate simulations on it,
nor do I plan to build OpenOffice/VAX ...

(snip)
> All this is from memory (what's left of it) so take care!
> Hans

At least I got a pile of original VS2000 paper manuals.