[Info-vax] Infoserver 150

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <h0nKz9mj3WdL at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	cornelius at eisner.decus.org (George Cornelius) writes:
> 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.
> 

Cool, I  now have two conflicting opinions.  Probably my fault as I
may not have provided enough information.  Just MOP is what I wanted,
enough to load a kernel (some of which will be custom) on the PDP.
Knowing little if anything about MOP I was mostly concerned with
compatability of MOB across such a wide span of years.  I guess I
will have to try it and find out.

bill

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