1 Oct
2007
1 Oct
'07
10:36 a.m.
On 30/09/2007, Tim Shoppa <shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com> wrote:
Did I not mention that in my original post? :?) Looking back I appear
to have put KB instead of B, but still...
"Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com>
wrote:
I don't own a serial terminal. I'd have to try to make a cable and
hook it to a PC and use a terminal emulator. Yet more complexity!
The two problems I don't currently have
answers for are these.
[1] I don't have a suitable monitor cable.
If you don't find one, you can still use a MMJ serial cable/console
to boot it. [2] Friends
have commented to me that a VAX of this age won't be able
to boot from CD-ROM.
It will, but you'll have to find a SCSI CD-ROM that supports 512 byte blocks. VAXcluster setup isn't hard but I've been
doing it for decades and
learned all the tricks in the first couple years, so maybe I'm
not the guy to judge :-).
I've not touched a VMS prompt since about 1995 and even then I never
installed a machine or built a cluster. I did things like back it up,
clear out logfiles, add the odd user and reboot occasionally.
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