[Info-vax] Alpha Personal Workstation 433au -

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-11-06 22:13:04 +0000, thedavegray at gmail.com said:

> On Wednesday, 6 November 2019 20:38:57 UTC, Stephen Hoffman  wrote:
> 
>> Boot a distribution kit via CD-ROM or via OpenVMS installed on another  
>> disk, and re-run a SET BOOTBLOCK command targeting the volume.  (Or  
>> invoke WRITEBOOT, if you're into older approaches.)
> 
> Ok so I can boot this from a V7.3-1 CDROM but neither of those commands 
> are available, or at least shown in the help.

Oh that's hilarious.
OpenVMS V7.3-1 is a fossil.
Minimally HPE OpenVMS V8.4 with a semi-recent UPDATE kit, or a VSI 
OpenVMS release if and as those are available
Otherwise, we're chasing old bugs.
V8.4 is a ~decade old.
V8.4 is what is available to hobbyists for download, and with hobbyist 
licenses available for the next year or so, and maybe less.
And I'd rather not do that.
Get the current stuff.
Then once you know everything works and if you really want to 
retronaut, scrounge up an old distribution, and install that on a 
scratch SCSI device.




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