[Info-vax] Infoserver 150

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <k60kaa$r0l$1 at iltempo.update.uu.se>,
	Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> On 2012-10-21 00:52, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> Success!!
>>
>> I have my Infoserver running.  Problem was the bootflags.  Default
>> is not 0 and the battery in this box is, obviously, dead.  Set BFLG
>> to D000000 and it boots just fine.  Also found the Operations Manual
>> online so I was able to get by not knowing the password.  Learned
>> quite a bit already, like I can have a pagefile on the Infoserver
>> for my VXT Xterminal.  I wasn't even aware this was possible.  Might
>> make it even more usable than it already was.  Now to see if I can
>> figure out how to boot other devices. One of my first testis going
>> to be trying to load a XINU Kernel into a PDP-11 over the ethernet.
>>
>> Let the fun begin!!
> 
> I wonder if you'll have much luck loading Xinu that way. I would suspect 
> that the MOP server in the Infoserver does not serve random binaries, 
> but they need to be in some understood format, since the MOP protocol as 
> such pass some additional packets with various information, as well as 
> each data packet being in a specific format with some metadata.
> 
> Also, I doubt Xinu would be very impressed by being netbooted, but that 
> would be a secondary question.
> 
> But this is all speculation on my part from half forgotten memories 
> about how the MOP protocol looks like.

Thanks.  Guess I need more information on MOP.  Might not meet my
requirements but it will still be fun to play with.

bill

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