>If you
have two drives and they're big enough on the MV3400, you can do
>like I did for my MicroVAX 3. I simply backed up the Hobbyist CD, copied
>it over the network to a RA73 and restored it to a RA72, then I booted off
>the RA72. Since you already have VMS installed on the MV3400 this should
>work for you also (I had 5.5-2 on a RD54 when I did it).
Cool idea, I've got to remember that one. Of course that is the power of these
beasts isn't it? :-)
One of these days in my "massive" amounts of free time I want to figure out
how to do this without having a boot disk on the target system. All that
should need to be done is set up the one machine as a boot server and boot
the other off of the cluster boot disk. It may be possible to do the whole
install over the network. I've just not had the time to play.
I love VMS Clusters! I'm fighting a problem with configuration of a VAX I'm
trying to bring into my cluster and I told it to reboot. It didn't come up
to the point where I can log in (don't actually have physical access to it
right now so am not sure where it stopped). However, I was still able to
mount it's system disk on another machine in the cluster to work on trying
to figure out what I did wrong and reverse the changes I made (I also love a
having a versioning filesystem).
Actually the one project I'm trying to find time to do is rebuild my entire
cluster. I've got enough spare systems I'll do most of the work on them,
and when the time comes move the system disks into place on the real
systems. Like I said, I love VMS Clusters!
Zane
