[Info-vax] New guide for hobbyists, OpenVMS 8.4 installation with networking on AXPbox (modern fork of es40)

[Joukj]

Remy wrote:
> Back in 2018 I was trying to run OpenVMS inside es40, but that
> was quite unstable. Now  Tomáš Glozar has forked es40 to axpbox
> and notified me about it, it installs OpenVMS without crashing. I wrote 
> a bit on axpbox here:
> 
> https://raymii.org/s/blog/Exciting_OpenVMS_Alpha_emulation_news_es40_has_been_forked_to_axpbox.html
> 
> I made a few contributions to the codebase, a few other patches floating 
> around es40 forks, for example to make netbsd boot, and wrote some wiki
> pages on network setup. 
> 
> For anyone that wants to give OpenVMS 8.4 on Alpha a spin, now that
> VSI has a hobbyist program, here's my guide how to do that:
> 
> https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Installing_OpenVMS_8.4_Alpha_in_AXPbox_with_networking.html

Thanks very much for writing the tutorials, they were very helpfull.
BTW form the examples/screenshots  given, may I assume that you are also 
located in the Netherlansds?)

> 
> One advantage of this is that you are not limited by the resource quotas in FreeAXP and can run multiple instances on one computer, so a cluster should technically be possible. 

And that it runs on Linux and not on Windhoos.

> 
> But now that x86 OpenVMS is around the corner, this guide and emulator have a shorter lifetime, since I hope to just install OpenVMS 9 inside regular old virtualbox.
> 
> Why am I posting this on the mailing list? My previous article complaining on the sad state of Alpha emulators sparked quite a fine discussion, but more importantly, I'm looking for feedback on the later parts of the guide. Specificly:
> 
> - license issues (required a reboot)
> - add a user and privileges
> - installation of unzip
> - srm information
> 
> Most of what I wrote was after much trial and error (this article cost me about 6 days to figure out and write), and I'm not sure if it's correct. I noticed that there was an interactive procedure for user management next to UAF. Also, in the FTP part there was lots of rummaging around with line endings and corrupt files, (binary mode). So I'm not sure if what I documented are the "correct" ways (lots of info online is sparse or outdated), and would like to improve the guide a bit.


as said very helpfull. I used it in 2 cases !) fresh install of 
OpenVMs8.4-2l and 2) letting it boot from a disk-file, created years ago 
with the free stromasys emulator on linux.(which does not work/exist 
anymore).

The only problem I detected was that installing on an IDE-disk from an 
IDI cd-rom, resulted in a failed IDE-controler after 30% installation. I 
was successful with an IDI cd-rom and a SCSI system disk.

                Jouk