[Info-vax] Infoserver 150

[George Cornelius]

In article <k5sfin$eui$2 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> On 2012-10-19 22:42, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <aedrmsF60fgU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>> Once I have it up and running, can a PDP-11 boot off of it, too?
>>
>> That I do not know.
> 
> The answer is "no". :-)
> Some PDP-11s do know how to netboot, but only using MOP.
> As far as I've understood infoservers, they are more than just MOP boot 
> servers...

A common use of Infoservers was for booting terminal servers.  Load
on a host could get rather high if all terminal servers in a large
building or campus rebooted due to a power failure.

I don't see why a PDP-11 could not boot from them if it could
boot via MOP.

Of course, the disk serving protocols inuse (LAD and LAST)
would probably be completely foreign to a PDP11 O/S. Still,
you could likely load diagnostics or RSX11S boot images.

George