[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[Bill Gunshannon]

Just when you think all is lost.....

I just booted the InfoServer 150.  No joke.

I started looking at all of the Layered Products disks I
have and pulled the ones with an Infoserver directory.
On VAXBINDEC975 which would be DEC 1997 Disk 5 I found a
cache of documentation.  One of the documents was
"INFOSERV035A_SYSOPS_GUIDE.TXT".  In it I found a list of
what all the saved configuration settings should be.  I
assumed because of its age the battery was probably dead
and all the settings would be blank.  I was wrong.  All
of them were correct, except for one.  BFLG.  Mine was
0000000 and the book says it should be D000000.  Yes,
that's a "D".  I  have no idea  what it means but after
fixing that the system booted from the ancient hard disk,
Of course, I didn't know the Password but there were
instructions to fix that, too.  And they worked.  So,
I now have an Infoserver 150 running V2.2.  The next
step is going to be figuring out how to clone that disk
before I try doing anything with the box.  Once I do
that, it's upgrade time.  I will use one of the many
CD's I have made over the last wee to bring it up to
V3.5  And then the real fun begins.

I want to thank everyone for their help.  All the
brainstorming is the only way I could have figured
this stuff out.

Any suggestions on how to backup that disk would also
be appreciated.  Knowing how hard it is to recover
one of these boxes I would really hate to loose it
doing something stupid.

bill