[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/26/19 6:16 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

But I think  some of the problem is that these are .img and not
.iso files.  And while some sites claim they are the same format
with only the name being different I am not seeing that.  Unless,
it turns out the file I downloaded originally were corrupt in
some way.  That's why I am trying to unpack the zipped files
for the 8.0 Freeware onto my VMS box.  We will see how it goes.

bill