[Info-vax] Infoserver 150

[Paul Sture]

In article <5082a622$0$6453$c3e8da3$dbd57e7 at news.astraweb.com>,
 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:

> 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 honestly don't know.  When I was running an Alpha cluster with PWS 
satellites, all I saw was that they went to the correct root on the 
system disk to get the SYSGEN parameters and startup files.

> 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).

There was a bit of DCL available which could dump the non-volatile 
settings from a DECserver to your VMS system.  If you didn't run that, a 
replacement DECserver meant you got to reconfigure it from scratch.

IIRC it wasn't a particularly elegant bit of DC L, but it did the job.
 
> 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 ?

Pass.

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Paul Sture