[Info-vax] So is there still a hobbyist program or not

[John E. Malmberg]

On 7/19/2019 8:17 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> On 7/18/2019 9:50 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
>> On 7/18/2019 7:26 PM, Rich Jordan wrote:
>>> On Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 6:00:54 PM UTC-5, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>>> On 7/18/19 4:40 PM, Rich Jordan wrote:
>>>>> On Thursday, July 11, 2019 at 10:46:59 PM UTC-5, John H. Reinhardt 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> As I posted in another response, since June Hari has added updates
>>>>>> to OpenVMS AXP and IA64 media as a response to a request from
>>>>>> another Hobbyist (I think it was on the DEC Computer Users Facebook
>>>>>> group but I can't find the exact post right now).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alpha: VMS84A_UPDATE-V1200.ZIPEXE VMS84A_UPDATE-V1200.TXT
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Integrity: VMS84I_UPDATE-V1400.ZIPEXE VMS84I_UPDATE-V1400.TXT
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- John H. Reinhardt
>>>>>
>>>>> Update V14 is the latest update.  There's only few individuals after
>>>>> that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do I remember correctly that th ISO for I64 available there is the
>>>>> one that included UPDATE V5 and an early FIBRE_SCSI kit in the ISO?
>>>> At some point there was a base kit with update 10 included.  I *think*
>>>> there was a previous one with update 7.  IIRC, these versions were
>>>> necessary for various generations of Integrity servers that could 
>>>> not be
>>>> booted from DVD with older versions.
>>>
>>> I have only seen the one with Update 5; not slipstreamed in, just on 
>>> the disk and autoinstalled by the VMS upgrade.  Update 10 would have 
>>> been nice in that it would be ready for SSL1.
>>>
>>
>> I have the various Hobbyist offerings for most years from 2019 and 
>> earlier.
>>
>> There is an IA64 V8.4 with update  0700 installed, dated 24-Jul-2012
>> There is an IA64 V8.4 with update  0900 installed, dated 13-Dec-2013
>> There is an IA64 V8.4 with update 01000 installed, dated  4-Apr-2017
>> And now the same update1000 image but an update 1400 zipexe patch, 
>> dated  5-Jul-2019 (Patch date, ISO is as previous)
>>
>> Additional patches give out over the years include:
>>
>> vms84i-manage-0200 dated 3-Feb-2017
>> vms84i-pcsi-v0400 dated 3-Feb-2017
>>
>> I do not have nor recall any FIBRE_SCSI patch available separately.  I 
>> would have noticed because I have/had HSG80/MSA1500/MSA2000 devices 
>> since 2005.
> 
> The Update 1400 has a lot of patches including: Manage-V0300 and 
> Fibre_SCSI-V1100 on IA64.
> 
> Still apparently missing on IA64 for Hobbyists are VMS84I_TZ, 
> VMSIA64_TIE, VMS84I_ICAP.
> 
> Installing it now.

Apparently even though update-1400 installed manage-v0300, installation 
of SSL1 fails with

In order to install the I64VMS-SSL1-V0100-2H kit, you must have
the VMS84I_MANAGE-V0200 (or later) kit installed.
Installed kits can be verified with a PROD SHO HISTORY command.

Will need to look at that later.

> And i still do not know of any working links to the current Open Source 
> and other free downloads such as JAVA, Firefox, SSH, SSH1, CSWB*, CSWS*.
> 
> I would like to have this WIKI be as up to date as possible for 
> Hobbyists (and others) for a place to see what is available and to let 
> them know what are duplicates.
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/vms-ports/wiki/VMSInstallation/
> 
Regards,
  -John
wb8tyw at qsl.net_work.