22 Dec
2001
22 Dec
'01
5:20 p.m.
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
Reminds me of my V3100 - quite some trouble installing
VMS on it too.
Reading the FAQs I guessed that any drive supporting 512 byte blocksize
should do. So I tried several Plextor drives and a Toshiba (all set to
512 byte/block) - not much success, the VS3100 would start to boot and
after a drop a screenful of error message on me.
A friend of mine came up with a good solution to this problem: If no bootable
CDROM drive is available, use a second hard drive with enough space to
accomodate a block-wise copy of the VMS installation CD (should be no more
than 500 MB, but i have not checked lately). Use a Unix system to copy the
VMS installation CD to this second HDD, then boot and install from that.
-Hans
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