31 May
2000
31 May
'00
2:02 p.m.
This might help: http://vaxine.bitcon.no/section3.html#ss33
It tells you how to make a NetBSD boot tape in *nix and VMS. Maybe you can
tar if= a disk image or something and tar=of onto a tape. Probably won't
work but worth a shot.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck McManis" <cmcmanis(a)mcmanis.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: VMS media availability for VAX 8530
create
At 10:11 AM 5/31/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I've got VMS 2.something on 8" floppies, and VMS 5.something on TK-50
tapes,
>but that's it. There might be a way to finagle
VMS onto the 9 track or
5.25"
media from the
current OpenVMS distro on CD.
An interesting question. I've VMS 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x distributions on
various media but none on 9-trk. I tried to get one recently but it had
already been thrown away (youch!). So is it possible for VMS to _create_
distribution media? Can you clone from one type to another? I could,
presumably create a 9 track tape with the save sets on them and then one with standalone backup so that you could boot
standalone backup, and
then copy the save sets. Would that be sufficient? (Unfortunately my TU81+
is out for the count, no doubt another one will tumble this way.)
--Chuck