3 Apr
2012
3 Apr
'12
9:06 a.m.
On 4/3/12 8:11 AM, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 04/03/2012 08:49 AM, David Riley wrote:
The concept isn't super different; I'm assuming Dave means a zip or
tarball of a premade image and SIMH config file that you can just
run with "vax vms-7.3.cfg" or something.
That's sorta what I was thinking. The legalities would prevent me
from distributing such a thing, though. I'd have to remove my license
and you'd have to install your own (easy to do) before doing anything
with it.
I just recently renewed my licenses and they have rewritten the script to
be VERY user-friendly. Instead of having to remove all the old licenses
manually (so you don't get a string of errors every time you start up) the
DCL does it for you - it also loads the licenses after installing them.
Soooo, what makes sense IMHO is a premade image with the licenses removed,
as you say, Dave. Then the recipient gets his/her own licenses (which
takes only a few hours at worst) and runs that script. To get the script
onto the emulated VAX, I recommend using a terminal emulator that allows
you to set a significant delay between lines, especially with the
emulator, whose input buffer otherwise seems to fill up and choke. Then
start the ASCII upload and go get a cup of coffee. -- Ian
Dave McGuire wrote:
> I don't know your level of expertise with VMS or simh, so please
>don't
> take this the wrong way, but...if you want to do that and would like
> some help, I'd be happy to help you out. I can put together a
>"canned"
> simh VMS installation for something like this in a very short time.
As you know Dave I have very similar problems. I'm very interested in
a
"canned" VMS - SIMH Version too...
Like a VMware appliance? Having recently gone through
the process of building VMS from scratch (with copious help from an
online tutorial from Hoffman Labs), it's non-trivial for the uninitiated
Oh c'mon, it's not that tough. ;)
(plus you need to get install media from
somewhere, which took me
about a month from Montagar).