OpenVMS Hobbyist License Question

On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:24:19AM -0400, THETechnoid(a)home.com wrote: There are two separate license applications you can request through the Montagar website. One is for the OpenVMS operating system itself, which I assume you have loaded onto the system. Just getting the license in the mail isn't enough, you need to actually load the license into the system. For a VAX, you will need to load the VAX-VMS license PAK. You will also need to load the DECwindows Motif license PAK. You get this license by requesting the Layered Products Licenses from Montagar's website. On the license request page, there is a pull-down menu that says "License Type:". You can choose "OpenVMS VAX", "OpenVMS Alpha", or "Layered Products". I assume you've already chosen "OpenVMS VAX" for the VAX-VMS license PAK. Good. Now you need to choose "Layered Products" to request the layered products licenses. There are a bunch of layered products licenses. I don't know what they all are. The one you want to load on your system is "DW-MOTIF". Unfortunately, to get yourself back to a state where you can load the licenses, you need to get VMS to load without going into DECwindows. The quickest way to do this is run the system console on the serial line and attach a terminal. That way the terminal becomes the OPA0: device and you can use it to log in as SYSTEM to do system maintenance (like loading the DW-MOTIF and VAX-VMS licenses as needed). If you DON'T have a terminal, you're not completely out of luck. Damn, I don't remember exactly how to do this, but you can do a conversational boot (which is done with a flag of /1 I think, so you'd do something like [or whatever your system disk is] Then you'll find yourself at the SYSBOOT> prompt. Issue the commands SYSBOOT> SET/STARTUP OPA0: SYSBOOT> SET WINDOW_SYSTEM 0 SYSBOOT> CONTINUE The system should continue to start up without DECwindows. Log in as SYSTEM and load your licenses. Finally type $ RUN SYS$SYSTEM:SYSGEN to get to the SYSGEN> prompt. At the SYSGEN> prompt, type: SYSGEN> USE CURRENT SYSGEN> SET WINDOW_SYSTEM 1 SYSGEN> WRITE CURRENT SYSGEN> EXIT And then reboot. I _think_ this will work, but I'm not 100% certain, as it's been a while since I did any of this stuff! To load a license, log in as SYSTEM and type $ @SYS$UPDATE:VMSLICENSE [I think... it's been a while] and follow the prompts. Fill in the appropriate questions with the appropriate fields from your license PAK. It's menu-driven. Anyway, I sure hope this helps. Good luck, and happy VMSing! -Seth