[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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