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

[Rich Jordan]

On Friday, July 19, 2019 at 8:25:31 AM UTC-5, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> 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.

We just did an upgrade this weekend using the hobbyist IA64 disk with Update 5 automatically post-installed.  SSL1 DID install successfully after Update V10 and Manage V2 were installed, then update 14 was done later.

However the SSL1 kit we got from HPE under support was 1.02o; maybe it would work with Manage V3, but no way to know now.  Both our test server and the live server were updated with the same sequence.