Backing up VAX/VMS?

Hi, renamed SYSTARTUP_V5.COM on a copy of the disk under SIMH and without it it does boot - so it's definately something in the startup files that crashing it. I didn't get LICENSE LIST/PROC to work, but I found LICENSE ISSUE/PROC which I think is what you intended. I extracted the license and was surprised to discover that there's no hardware ID in them - so I dug a bit deeper and discovered SHOW LICENSE/CHARGE which indicates to me that SIMH is simulating a VAXserver which does not permit VAXstation licenses - the VAX-VMS 5.5 license indicates that it's 'D' (VAXstation). This is probably why it will not activate. I have another big (5.25") drive with VMS 5.4-1 on it. I can boot it but it requests for other drives to be mounted and can't go any further. It's got a LOT of stuff on it. I have trouble mounting it under OpenVMS7.2 because it keeps going offline and then remounting with mount verification - I don't know why it does this. I did manage to copy off the license .LDB file and used license issue/proc * /DATA=file to extract the license data from it. There are a total of 490 licenses installed on it! I can send you the list if you want to see if there's anything on there of interest/worth trying to recover. It has an unrestricted VAX-VMS license - I hoped I might be able to use it for the VMS 5.5 under SIMH, however it complains about the product release date - apparently it's not valid for a newer version of VMS. Dave -- dave06a (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/index.html