[Info-vax] Error installing DECSet

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-12-18 21:08:22 +0000, antonio.duran at gmail.com said:

> My name is Antonio. I was an Ada programmer on DEC/VAX back in the late 
> 80's. No sysadmin skills. I managed to get up and running an instance 
> of OpenVMS 7.3 on simh on a Raspberry Pi and I'm getting errors when 
> trying to install the DECSet 12.2 kit that I got.
> 
> I downloaded a zip (DECSET122.zip) file which I unzipped on the Raspi, 
> then create an iso image with the unzipped contents and mount that iso 
> file in the virtual CDROM unit of my OpenVMS instance (DUA3:).
> What am I doing wrong?

Buenas dias Antonio,

On the off chance that there's a legitimate software kit underneath 
this mess and not malware, others have given you the answer.

Better still, HPE was offering free VAX kit downloads with the hobbyist 
licenses.  Get yourself a "real" OpenVMS VAX kit.

The contents and structure of the "real" kit from HPE will be more 
predictable, and you'll have less or no remedial work around the 
kitting.

The kit you've acquired here was created by folks with little or no 
familiarity with packaging OpenVMS software, or that were unconcerned 
with better camouflaging their efforts around packaging cracked 
software and malware.  That means you're having to remediate issues in 
the files sourced, which makes what is already a cryptic and arcane 
sequence that much more effort.  The HPE kit will get you a current 
OpenVMS VAX install and "recent" software kits, and there are folks 
here in the comp.os.vms newsgroup that are familiar with the contents 
and format of that kit.

And yes, there has been OpenVMS malware around, and there'll be more.  
And some of it will arrive in software installation kits.

Do get the HPE distro, por favor.

¡Buena suerte!




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