[Info-vax] VAXStation 3100

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/18/19 6:12 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 1/18/2019 3:33 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 1/18/19 3:02 PM, Hans Vlems wrote:
>>> When DECnet is running on the VAX and the other systems don’t see it
>>> then the ethernet switch on the back may be in the wrong position. It
>>> offers a choice between AUI (i.e. needs an external transceiver) and
>>> thinwire. So you might want to check that.
>>
>> Got that.  10baseT transciever.  it talks to my MOP server OK which is
>> one of the machines that also does DECNET.  But I can not login to it
>> from the other machines or login to the other machines from it.  I have
>> a command on the other machines that shows other services available
>> but the VMS system does not show up.
>>
>>> On ConDist cd’s there’s a [CDROM] directory. You can search the text
>>> files or run the utility in it. IIRC it requires a logical name that
>>> points to the cdrom device.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I now seem to remember that.  Then you pick what you want and
>> it tells you which disk to insert.  Right?
> 
> Don't know about any utility.  The text file can tell you what is on the 
> CDs and they you mount the desired CD, and specify the location of the 
> kit when running VMSINSTAL, or that other thing, if appropriate.

Could be misremembering but I though the menu was a DCL script
that made the installs a little easier than wading thru every
disk looking for what you wanted.

> 
> There is doc directories also, so you can actually RTFM before jumping in.
> 
> Now, after getting a bit used to this, let me open up an old argument. 
> Do tell us what is easier to install, VMS stuff or WEENDOZE stuff?
> 

Not sure which answer you want to hear, but by comparison it
isn't VMS.

The only reason the initial install went as well as it did was
that I have done it in the past, many, many times.  And I still
had to get out a book and read up on it.  I have never needed
to look at any documentation to install any version of Windows
since at least 2000.  Or Linux, or any opf the BSD's that I just
did three of on three different architectures in one evening.

And, while I have your attention.  I mentioned trying to connect
between my various machines using DECNET.  It seems my non-VMS
machines send out regular broadcasts of LAT Protocol 0x6004
offering information about themselves.  Some process, probably
latd, collects this and makes it available to the program that
handles connections for logging in.  Anybody ever hear about
anything like this on VMS?

bill