5 Jun
2002
5 Jun
'02
1:56 p.m.
--- Antonio Carlini <Antonio.Carlini(a)riverstonenet.com> wrote:
Do you mean 5.5 or 5.5-2?
IIRC, I have all the patch tapes and distros up to, but not
including 6.0, so I should have VMS 5.5-2 on magtape.
My best VAX processor is either the 8200 or a MicroVAX-II. Neither
have Ethernet at the moment (I'm working on getting a DEBNT going).
For all the years I was earning a living with VAXen, we never networked
ours faster than 56kbps or clustered any of them - all local disks
and sync DDCMP/HASP interconnections with Kermit occasionally thrown
in to small VAXen that lacked a sync serial port.
So at clustering, I'm a complete novice.
-ethan
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5.5 is available on CD, it's just not easy to get.
If I had it, I wouldn't be asking. :-) If you want to build a bootable VAX disk (even
just S/A BACKUP then using aVAX and a container file
is by far the easiest way). You can pull apart STABACKIT.COm
from a VAX distribution and see what it does and
replicate by hand - but it's a fair amount of work!
I know it's a busy script - I've looked at it in the past.
The problem is that your RZ26 has too much room and
you have no
control where things go unless you work at it very hard
True. I was thinking that a mostly-empty 1GB disk wouldn't have
blocks allocated from the top, but you are right - I have no
control over where stuff goes.
Would it be a
problem for cross-platform? I know it's easy to make
No - just cluster a VAX with you Alpha for a
while and let it take the strain :-)