[Info-vax] Exploring a hard drive on a new Vaxstation

[Bob Koehler]

In article <p4lj77$325$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
> In article <7bea3a4b-30b3-4d1e-9a6b-7e97e25f1e37 at googlegroups.com>,
> Cliff Miller  <cliff52 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>When I wrote "File Not Found" I was being imprecise and caused unnecessary confusion, for which I apologize.
>>The RZ23 hard drive shows up as device DKA300.  When I typed "Boot DKA300" I got the messages:
>>-DKA300
>>?42 NOSUCHFILE, DKA300 
>>84 FAIL
>>I'll proceed such that the disk is present and readable but not bootable.  As I have no SCSI CDROM at the present I'll pursue the option to net boot via SIMH and install a fresh VMS that way.
>>Thanks for all the replies - 
> 
> You forgot the colon.  "DKA300" is a file, "DKA300:" is a device.

   The console boot command doesn't care.  There is no boot file on
   DKA300.