[Info-vax] VMSKITBLD.COM fails with CREATE_SYSDIRS cannot locate product description file.

[John E. Malmberg]

On 1/13/2019 1:58 PM, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> On Sunday, 13 January 2019 14:58:35 UTC, Andrew Back  wrote:
> 
> As others have pointed out, VMSKITBLD isn't usually relevant
> to the picture you describe, even if what you want to do is
> end up with a VAXstation 2000 with its own local independent
> copy of VAX/VMS.
> 
> I was going to suggest you looked at some of the entirely
> useful SIMH/VAX/VMS/VAXcluster articles on the web elsewhere,
> some of which have actual pictures. And some others provide
> step by step (but hopefully reasonably complete and reasonably
> correct) descriptions of procedures specific to SIMH.
> 
> I have a feeling you may have seen one or two of them already,
> but I'll include them anyway in case they may help e.g.
> https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-raspberry-pi-vax-cluster
> has pictures and links, is credited to Andrew Back in 2012
> and also links to
> https://www.wherry.com/gadgets/retrocomputing/vax-simh.html
> which is a handy document too,
> And there's
> https://raymii.org/s/blog/OpenVMS_7.3_install_log_with_simh_vax_on_Ubuntu_16.04.html
> which has lots of detail for installing VAX/VMS V7.3 in a
> SIMH/Ubuntu environment ready for forming a VMScluster,
> including the log of the initial VMS installation
> procedure and relevant Q+A that may not *quite* match your
> current setup but may be at least as helpful as what you're
> seeing here at the moment.

https://sourceforge.net/p/vms-ports/wiki/VMSInstallation/

I would not bother installing VAX/VMS on an RD53.  It will just barely 
fit with out the optional components.

You may almost get better performance to just always boot the VAXstation 
2000 diskless from SimH/VAX.  I think the network bandwidth might be 
better than the local disk.

https://sourceforge.net/p/vms-ports/wiki/VMSHardware/

Regards,
-John