[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/26/19 9:54 AM, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
> 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 ?
> 

I thought of that but, from the readme file:
   "This directory contains various InfoServer software disk images"

One of them is 200MB, a bit large for a MOP image.

bill