[Info-vax] Sharing CDROM on Alpha Server

Stephen Hoffman seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Tue Jan 19 12:50:15 EST 2021


On 2021-01-19 13:13:07 +0000, nw.johnson at ieee.org said:

> Thanks again, Volker but unfortunately I have hit another snag - I 
> don't have any machines on the network that run  Windows!  I will try 
> and get an install disk from somewhere else and do what you suggest!

Try the AXPbox emulator. That's a fork of the ES40 emulator. Per 
reports here, AXPbox has/had crashing bugs in part of its SCSI 
implementation. But it might work well enough for your needs. Or the 
crash might have gotten fixed.

Alternatively, TrueNAS Core (formerly FreeNAS) might be a different 
alternative for serving NFS storage, as OpenVMS has had some issues 
with NFS over the years—the latest TCP/IP Services patches seem to 
work, but NFS on older versions was spotty.

https://www.ixsystems.com/documentation/freenas/11.3-U5/services.html#nfs

That does TFTP and NFS, but I don't immediately see bootp support. 
(Recent OpenVMS does have bootp/tftp, though, as that's the path for 
booting OpenVMS I64.)

Or prolly much easier all around for this case of a diskless NetBSD 
configuration boot, spin up a NetBSD or OpenBSD instance and use that 
as your MOP boot loader:

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/netboot/mop.html

That'll likely have been tested a little more for this task than will 
have OpenVMS, and NetBSD or OpenBSD will be an easier configuration to 
explain and pass along to the NetBSD folks if there should be a latent 
bug in diskless support.


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