9 Jun
2015
9 Jun
'15
9:10 a.m.
On Jun 9, 2015, at 09:04, Johnny Billquist <bqt at
update.uu.se> wrote:
On 2015-06-09 17:45, Mark J. Blair wrote:
Got it. Thanks!
Self-replying for another possibly-dumb question.
Would any of the TU58 images below likely be full VMS installation images, as opposed to
just updates and patches?
http://iamvirtual.ca/VAX11/VAX-11-software.html
If you by "full VMS installation" means the whole VMS distribution, as just
opposed to the installation tools, then I don't think that was made available on TU58
since V4 or so.
It would just be too many tapes... The standalone BACKUP system, however, should be
available on TU58. And I can see V5.3 standalone BACKUP tapes in there at least.
Yes, I'm trying to boot those images in particular. No luck so far, but that may still
be a tu58em compatibility issue, since I think I'm pushing it into untested areas.
Doing a backup of the R80 onto emulated TU58 images seems like it would be pretty painful
(if it's even supported by the standalone backup), but it's the only potential
path to extracting the data that I've come up with so far, using things I have on
hand.
If so, another option might be to make a fresh
installation onto a blank RL02 (I think I have one), so I could then boot from that and
try to examine what's on the R80.
I do not think you can install VMS on an RL02. It's too small.