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

terry-groups at glaver.org terry-groups at glaver.org
Wed Mar 20 17:44:20 EDT 2019


On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 5:20:14 PM UTC-4, dgordo... at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.

The link in my original post is to the HP 7.3 installation guide. However, it is less than informative.

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

They were not w:re, but fixing that didn't change the behavior.

> 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.

There is an ISL_SCRIPT.ESS;1 file which contains (after removing comment lines):
USE MOP [SYS0.SYSEXE]ISL_LVAX_073.SYS /PAR=ISL_LVAX_073 "VMS V7.3 ISL support"
USE MOP [SYS0.SYSEXE]ISL_SVAX_073.SYS /PAR=ISL_SVAX_073 "VMS V7.3 ISL support"

But none of the SYS$SYSTEM:ESS$mumble.EXE utilities have any sort of "USE" command. My guess is that that is for a real Infoserver that doesn't have a MOM$LOAD directory and thus it needs to be told about what files to serve via MOP to its clients.



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