30 Sep
2007
30 Sep
'07
8:35 a.m.
"Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
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.
find it. It's been suggested to me that the
easiest way to install
would be to install VMS onto SIMH on my PC, netboot the VAXstation off
the simulated VAX and install from one to the other. This sounds
moderately hairy to me. I'm not a VMS virgin but I've not used it in
15y or so and I've never installed a machine from scratch - I just did
day-to-day sysop duties.
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 :-).
Tim.