[Info-vax] VMS VAX and SimH VAX

[MG]

On 31-3-2012 17:11, Paul Sture wrote:
> Those messages were output because I booted from the installation CDROM
> image.  Naturally being a read only device there isn't much point having
> page or dump files present on it.

That's true, I guess, but I have never seen those messages during the
Alpha and I64 installation processes.

Further down the road, I end up here:
--------------------------------[TOF]--------------------------------
%SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT Mapping the SYSDUMP.DMP on the System Disk
%SYSBOOT-W-SYSBOOT Can not map SYSDUMP.DMP on the System Disk
   YSBOOT-W-SYSBOOT Can not map PAGEFILE.SYS on the System Disk
    OpenVMS (TM) VAX Version X7G7 Major version id = 1 Minor version id = 0
♥♦%WBM-I-WBMINFO Write Bitmap has successfully completed initialization.
PLEASE ENTER DATE AND TIME (DD-MMM-YYYY  HH:MM)  31-MAR-2012 21:30

Configuring devices . . .
Now configuring HSC, RF, and MSCP-served devices . . .

Please check the names of the devices which have been configured,
to make sure that ALL remote devices which you intend to use have
been configured.

If any device does not show up, please take action now to make it
available.


Available device  DUA0:                            device type RA90
Available device  DUA1:                            device type RA90
Available device  DUA2:                            device type RA90
Available device  DUA3:                            device type RRD40
Available device  DYA0:                            device type RX02
Available device  DYA1:                            device type RX02
Available device  MUA0:                            device type TK50
Available device  MUA1:                            device type TK50
Available device  MUA2:                            device type TK50
Available device  MUA3:                            device type TK50

Enter "YES" when all needed devices are available: YES
%BACKUP-I-IDENT, Stand-alone BACKUP T7.2; the date is 31-MAR-2012 
21:33:15.20
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This is very different from what I'm used to with Alpha and I64
installation procedures, unless something isn't going as it's
supposed to...


> BTW I've just downloaded the latest SimH 3.9 Release Candidate, so I'll
> be playing with it for a while.  Feel free to ask away.

Maybe I should 'upgrade' as well...

  - MG