12 Jun
2001
12 Jun
'01
5:36 a.m.
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Tom Uban wrote:
I seem to recall seeing some information on this in
the past, but
I haven't been able to dredge any up.
Does anyone know if a VXT2000 can be booted from a non-dec unix or
windows box?
Also, does anyone know where the binaries, etc can be found?
--tnx
--tom
Yes, you can boot it from any unix system. When booting it tries a variety
of protocols, at least on is rarp with tftp followup, but it also tries
lat.
The x terminal management software is included on the freeware version of
VMS which contains the binary boot images. You can still download it
from compaq, I haven't got the url handy right now.
However, I've not been
able to decode it, I assume it's in vmsbackup format,
but I haven't found
a tool which will actually read it, so I might be wrong.
However, I did find an image for it some time ago, it's a test version
of the full fledged everything and the kitchen sink version of the boot
image, including a terminal program and window manager. This requires
quite a bit of memory to work. You can get it at:
http://www.dnd.utwente.nl/~auke/VXT/VXT021K7.SYS
regards,
Auke van Slooten