[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[Dave Froble]

On 1/26/2019 4:25 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
>

Google FreeISOBurner, simple, worked for me.  Runs on WEENDOZE, I forget 
it it runs on others.


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