27 Sep
2000
27 Sep
'00
7:05 p.m.
Hello all, I have a VaxStation 4000 VLC (David I
promise I'm going to send
Congrats, it's a great box! It's one of the better VAXen for hobbyist use.
the Amiga this weekend!) without an OS. I'd love
to run VMS on it (I have a
Now there is an attitude I like :^) Don't let any of these bums talk you
into running NetBSD on it :^)
DECUS membership -- I love free student memberships ;)
) but I have no idea
how to go about it.
From the sounds of things your first stop needs to be
at:
http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/
to order the VAX Hobbyist CD.
I have an external 1.3 gig SCSI drive for the SCSI
port,
an AUI -> BNC transceiver for ethernet... but no console. I'm looking for
that cable to go from the serial port to a terminal. Where can I get one?
Um, no idea where you can find them, I've found a couple in a junk store.
Of course what I find harder to find is the DB25 plugs that plug into the
cable.
Also, are there any FAQs or documents that describe
installation? I have a
The above URL will give info on installation, and I got a doc describing how
to do it with my Hobbyist CD. Also see the OpenVMS FAQ at:
http://eisner.decus.org/vms/faq.htm
and the OpenVMS Doc site at:
http://www.openvms.compaq.com:8000/
SCSI CD (1X, woohoo!) and an NFS/FTP server. BOOTP is
almost set up, DHCP
already is. Can the machine come to life with bootp and tftp? Is it possible
to install VMS this way?
You're not going to be able to do it with bootp or tftp. However, the fact
your SCSI CD is only 1x is a good thing believe it or not, as that increases
the likelyhood that it will do 512-byte blocks instead of 2048-byte blocks.
You must have a CD-ROM that does 512-byte blocks in order to boot from the
CD.
Zane