12 Apr
2002
12 Apr
'02
12:25 a.m.
okay I live in melbourne and this one seemed too good
to pass up, so
basically I have got the machine, need to fix the system password, but I
have some documantation on how to do that so no real problems there...
Okay what It came with
The machine as listed abouve, including all of the leads, so I have no
hassles connecting up a terminal as it came with the mmj serial line. A
vt440 and a huge old laser printer.
But the big thing is that when I spoke to darren about th machine, he said
that it came with all of its manuals.
when he said all he wasn't kidding, I am still sorting out the 5 boxes or
so of folders and manuals there are heaps, programmer refernce manuals all
sorts of manuals I will provide a good list when I have finished sorting
everything out...
So a good find....
And one I never thought I would see here, it allways seems that the free
stuff is allways in the USA...
Joy
Benjamin Gardiner
Hmmm Replying to ones own message, grrr
I can't seem to change the system password, here is what I am doing point
out anything wrong...
I am flolowing the directions from:
http://www.vaxarchive.org/swdoc/vms/txt/vmsfaq.txt
(the section MGMT5)
at the >>> prompt I have entered b/1 this gets me to the SYSBOOT> prompt
all good so far.
then I type the followning commands:
SET/STARTUP OPA0:
SET WRITESYSPARAMS 0
CONTINUE
this gets me to the $ prompt then I type
SPAWN
@SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP
And from the VMS faq this leads me to believe that it sould boot up and
leave me logged in to the console. and then I could change the password.
this doesn't seem to occur, it seems to boot up normaly, and then ask for
user/password...
Is there anything I am doing wrong? I am using VMS 6.1 if thats a help
THanks heaps
Benjamin