[Info-vax] booting vaxstation off alpha

[Paul Sture]

In article 
<216d02e3-b74e-45b8-842e-86a9c3995182 at w4g2000vbk.googlegroups.com>,
 Hans Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> wrote:

> On 11 feb, 16:22, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
> Koehler) wrote:
> > In article 
> > <8da55823-8896-4ef9-a1e9-80ce41019... at fv9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>, Hans 
> > Vlems <hvl... at freenet.de> writes:
> >
> >
> >
> > > The last paragraph reads as if DECnet isn't available over DSSI, did I
> > > get that right?
> > > (obviously not because it is....).
> > > So what wasn't available over DSSI which was over the good old CI?
> > > Hans
> >
> >    The full WAN capabilities of DECnet are not available over DSSI,
> >    but you can set host to a DSSI controller and interact with it.
> 
> The SET HOST command to access a DSSI device has nothing to do with
> DECnet.

To be specific, that's SET HOST /DUP

and IIRC to get there you first needed to do something like:

$ mcr sysgen connect fya0 /noadapter /driver=fydriver

(caveat: that's from memory)

-- 
Paul Sture