VAX Booting and Startup Dilema (was: VAX console and crossover...)

Quothe Witchy, from writings of Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 12:12:51AM -0000: That seemed to cause the systmem to hang... however... perhaps I didn't wait long enough... but I'm sure I waited over 10 minutes, just as I did last time I did it. However, after doing the following, it all took under about five minutes to get to the DCL prompt. [...] Accounting information: Buffered I/O count: 2600 Peak working set size: 794 Direct I/O count: 455 Peak page file size: 11364 Page faults: 2880 Mounted volumes: 0 Charged CPU time: 0 00:00:17.00 Elapsed time: 0 00:02:11.34 Username: SYSTEM Password: Welcome to VAX/VMS version V5.5 Last interactive login on Saturday, 28-JUL-2001 00:45 Last non-interactive login on Friday, 27-JUL-2001 14:02 %CDU-E-OPENIN, error opening QFAX_SYS:[SYSMGR]QFAX.CLD; as input -RMS-F-DEV, error in device name or inappropriate device type for operation $ Wow, how time flies. This poor VAX had been sitting under my cellar stairs, unused, since July of 2001! Zog! Didn't realize it had been that long... good thing I needed to change that light bulb, got sidetracked and then ended up moving the VAX. :-) Thanks! Now, I've just set the time to the right time, and can begin playing with this VAX. Next things: getting LAT working between the VAX and the FreeBSD box and start installing some software like gcc and CMU-IP. Fortunatley, the previous owner installed kermit on this machine. Time to dig out my box of old DCL scripts from around 1991 with various DCL scripts and the miniature game of adventure that I wrote in DCL, which doubles as a DCL prompt. :-) Cheers! RDD -- Copyright (C) 2003 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.