[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[Marc Van Dyck]

Bill Gunshannon expressed precisely :
> On 1/26/19 9:10 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> 
>> So, do we have any InfoServer experts here?  I have a problem.
>> I finally got the chance to work on the InfoServer I have had
>> for at least a decade and never got to do anything with.  The
>> hard disk is blank, I assume wiped by the previous owner before
>> giving it away.  I have all the disk images from the Freeware
>> 5.0 CD.  I think I have identified them all.  Two should be
>> software loads and the others are licenses for features. Now,
>> here's the problem.  None of them will boot.  They are all
>> Files-11 format and I assume you just boot them in the CDROM
>> and they will have install scripts that run automatically.
>> But, no luck.  Anybody have any suggestions?
>> 
>
> Another question regarding this problem.  The files are described
> as: "Files-11 On-Disk Structure (ODS-2); VAX/VMS or OpenVMS file
> system; volume label is 'IS_V35      '".  Would it be possible
> using my VMS system to copy these files to a hard disk in such
> a manner as to make the hard disk a bootable device that I could
> then move to the Infoserver?  I suspect that the burning process
> is not accurately putting the images on the CD/R.  I looked at
> one of them on another machine and there is data at the beginning
> of the disk that definitely wasn't part of the image. If this is
> doable, can anyone tell me what the needed commands would be?
>
> bill

Shouldn't these images be booted via a MOP operation over the network ?

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Marc Van Dyck