[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[Mark DeArman]

On Sunday, January 27, 2019 at 5:42:19 PM UTC-8, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 1/27/19 8:25 PM, Mark DeArman wrote:
> > On Saturday, January 26, 2019 at 6:10:50 AM UTC-8, 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?
> >>
> >> bill
> > 
> > I second using ImgBurn on Windows.  Use FastCopy to verify copies off of the Freeware media.  Use SIMH to verify it is valid after transferring to the PC.
> > 
> 
> How is SIMH going verify anything that the real machine won't?
> People have already said SIMH does not emulate the 3100, it
> certainly wouldn't do the Infoserver which seems to be a really
> strange 3100.
> 
> bill

If there are problems involved in moving it onto the PC, which are trashing the img file before it gets burnt to the CDR media.  Mount it under SIMH, verify the filesystem integrity. This is the most common issue I run into burning ODS-2 or other foreign images onto CD-R.  ImgBurn has no issue burning byte exact copies.  Just make sure to run a verify pass afterwards, many  contemporary CD-R units are flakey.