[Info-vax] booting vaxstation off alpha

Michael Kraemer M.Kraemer at gsi.de
Sat Feb 9 04:10:40 EST 2013


John E. Malmberg schrieb:

> 3. It can also be done by making an image back of the VAX/VMS 
> distribution disk and then creating the system root and manually 
> configuring the clustering files on the disk and adjusting either
> DECNET/MOP or LANCP to point to that disk. 

Which is somewhat similar to the way a classical X-terminal boots?
I.e. it is offered just a collection of (binary) files,
but does not require running an OS of the same type?

> But if you knew how to do 
> that you would not need to ask, and if you do not know how, it would 
> take longer for me to write out the procedure from my memory than I have 
> time for, and I would probably miss a critical step.

But maybe somebody has already done this and has put it into the net?




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