[Info-vax] Help needed booting VAX 4000-200 from Alpha using Infoserver utility

[dgordonatvsi at gmail.com]

On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 3:59:28 PM UTC-4, terry-... at glaver.org wrote:
> I am trying to do a clean install of VMS 7.3 (from the Hobbyist Program) on a VAX 4000-200 (real, not emulated) via my VMS 8.4 Alpha DS10 (emulated via AlphaVM Pro). The 4000-200 has an existing installation of VMS 5.4-3 which is working, so I know that hardware is good. Likewise, the emulated Alpha DS10 has been running for years with no problems.

Even as the Executive Vice President of InfoServer Engineering at VSI, the only advice I can offer you is to see if you can find the installation guide for V7.3.  It's been too long since I had to ISL a VAX system.

There are issues perhaps with the names of things, and make sure the stuff that needed to be in MOM$LOAD is w:re. 

Actually, look in the MFD of the installation disc.  There's a text file there that gave the hardware InfoServer information about the things that had to be copied from the CD to MOP partitions.  I don't remember the name, but it should stand out.