[Info-vax] Infoserver 150

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-10-20 16:06, John Wallace wrote:
> Are you 100% sure the DECnet characteristics of an 11S node are built
> in at image build time? I thought stuff like that was downloaded by a
> follow-on to the original image load, using stuff set up in the NCP
> database. But it's been a while, and I *may* be confusing it with
> something similar from the LAVC (or maybe VAXELN) world.

Pretty sure. You use VMR to create the system image, and in there you 
load the DECnet tasks and regions. You then use VNP to configured the 
DECnet parameters of the image. VNP is pretty much the same as CFE 
(which is pretty much the same as NCP), but VNP operates on the system 
image, just like VMR, but for DECnet specific things.

As 11S don't have any file system, anything needed must already be in 
memory, or else you already need the network set up to get it.

(Oh, and Unix is pretty much the same as Linux in these kind of 
discussions... :-) )

	Johnny

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