[Info-vax] another HP website fubar

[David Froble]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2015-06-21 14:34:44 +0000, Neil Rieck said:
> 
>> Thanks for that link because using it allowed me to find this one: 
>> http://h30266.www3.hp.com/ODLIndex.asp
>>
>> Humorous coincidence: This week we racked then powered a brand new 
>> Itanium rx2800-i2 purchased from HP. These things come with no 
>> manuals, no media, and no installed OS. Now to be fair to HP, two 
>> weeks ago they emailed me links to download all the necessary manuals 
>> as well as an ISO containing OpenVMS which I had to burn to DVD; no 
>> big deal. This rx will not boot the ISO as-is (well, it appears to 
>> boot the DVD for several minutes then stops with no messages on the 
>> VGA terminal; the message was on the serial console associated with 
>> the iLO).
> 
> For those that haven't previously encountered the console selection 
> mechanisms (or blissfully forgot them): 
> <http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1132>
> 
>> So on Friday I was using chapter 4 of "HP Integrity rx2800 i2 Server 
>> User Service" to properly install OpenVMS from the DVD. This manual 
>> contains a lot of broken links (well, many were broken on Friday but a 
>> few seem to be working today, Sunday). The bottom of page-81 instructs 
>> the reader to visit http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/os84_index.html for 
>> additional information, and this link is still dead.
> 
> That URL link should never have been used in that context.  
> Unfortunately, various of the sorts of links that should have been used 
> in that context — the "go" links — are presently broken, too.  I've seen 
> other references to the h71000.www7.hp.com server, so there'll be more 
> dead links encountered.
> 
> 

The problem I'm having here is a simple one.

What if the purchaser has no other computer systems?  None.  Zilch.  Nada.

When you're purchasing something like this, shouldn't it come with 
everything you need?  Like "batteries included"?