[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/26/19 4:13 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2019-01-26 20:14:43 +0000, bernhard.wulfmiteinemf at gmail.com said:
> 
>> Installed / Updated an Infoserver 150 some time ago.
>>
>> In my notes I found the following...
>> Console port is MMJ port 1 (the one, next to the reset switch)
>> Break Enable switch needs to be in the down position.
>>
>> For the update / installation I booted CD 6 (of 14) out of the Dec 
>> 1999 Software Product Library.
>> Will have a look for that CD-Rom to get an impression whats so special 
>> with it.
>>
>> The installation started with a simple
>>>>> b dka200 (that is the CD-Rom)
>>
>> -DKA200
> 
> 
> https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v80/infoserver/freeware_readme.txt
> 
> 
> 
> InfoServer, SYSTEM_MGMT, InfoServer Software
> 
> This directory contains various InfoServer software disk images, the
> client for Microsoft MS-DOS (the OpenVMS LAD/LAST client is built into
> OpenVMS), and the associated keys for enabling various InfoServer
> functions.
> 
> InfoServer devices are early network server devices, and provide
> various functions in support of OpenVMS itself (including network
> bootstrap and installation of OpenVMS), and in support of other
> systems with InfoServer clients.
> 
> To use these disk images, these images must be replicated onto floppy
> disk media (the MS-DOS kit), or onto CD-R media, and then loaded into
> an appropriate MS-DOS client, or onto an InfoServer device.
> 
> As an alternative to InfoServer hardware, systems running OpenVMS I64
> V8.2-1 and later, and OpenVMS Alpha V8.3 and later, include host-based
> InfoServer server support, and directly integrated into OpenVMS itself.
> This in addition to the long-standing LAD/LAST client capabilities, and
> the bootp/tftp support required for downloading OpenVMS I64 into an HP
> Integrity server.
> 
> InfoServer MS-DOS V2.0 client floppy disk images
> ak-plz3c-ca_1-of-3.img
> ak-plz3c-ca_2-of-3.img
> ak-plz3c-ca_3-of-3.img
> 
> VTX Software V2.1
> InfoServer/VMS
> ag-pjjhh-be.img
> 
> InfoServer/VMS V3.5
> ag-r7lfa-bs.img
> 
> InfoServer CDR Function (Open Access)
> ag-q1mua-xe.img
> 
> InfoServer 1000 Tape Function (Open Access)
> ag-pybja-xe.img
> 
> InfoServer 100/150 Tape Function (Open Access)
> ag-pjxla-re.img
> 
> InfoServer 100/150 Disk Function (Open Access)
> ag-pjxka-re.img
> 
> -- 
> 
> LAD: Local Area Disk, a disk storage protocol used by InfoServer devices,
> and supported by the consoles of various MicroVAX, VAX systems, and by
> the SRM console of Alpha systems.
> 
> LAST: Local Area Tape.  Not to be confused with Local Area Terminal (LAT).

Yeah, I've got all that.  Those are the images I am not
having fun with.  Turns out that none of the CD Burning
software I have tried has actually burned the image into
a CD/R.  It appears it just copies the file to a directory
it creates on the CD/R.  That was with three different
applications on Ubuntu.  I just tried on a PC that has
the capability built in to Windows 7 and it says the
image isn't an image at all.

I am trying to get all of Freeware 8.0 onto my VMS
machine to see what I can do from there.  Maybe copy
the image to a hard disk and try that.  But I am not
holding out hope for it to actually work.

I ran out of disk space on the 1GB disk I had for VMS
so I am now trying top get one of my 54 GB arrays
hooked up.

bill