[Info-vax] another HP website fubar

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

David Froble skrev den 2015-06-22 01:38:
> 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.

Totaly uninteresting. That will simply never happen.
Why speculate about something that never happens anyway?

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

That is not how the IT business works today. Should VMS live in the past?

Instead of "opening the box" you "open the browser".