[Info-vax] Infoserver 150

[Michael Moroney]

JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:

>Question about MOP booting and Infoservers:

>It is/was my understanding that when VMS serves a MOP request from
>another VMS host, it appends extra information to the specificed load
>file (such as the SYSGEN paremeters applicable to that architecture)

>I don't remember how terminal server configs were stored. Were they on
>non volatile memory on a server like DECserver 200 ? Or were they copied
>back to the MOP host to be appended to the load file ? (I just realised
>how far this info is for me , last time I played with a decserver was in
>early 1990s).

>When it comes to an Infoserver, does it provide the exact same
>capabilities in terms of appending information to the load file served
>by the MOP server ?

There were additional parameters that could be set for a MOP boot from a
VMS server.  If the Infoserver implemented the full MOP spec, these should
have been available using it, however I don't know if it did.