22 Nov
2014
22 Nov
'14
8:39 a.m.
Hi all,
Now that I've got some BA23s I've been busy building up a few Q-bus
systems. I've got one KA650 based system with a good, booting RD54 and one
KA655 based system with a good, booting Maxtor 340 MB ESDI drive (via a
Sigma controller). Points to Maxtor for quality, I guess!
As fun as it is to boot the vintage VMS 5.x releases on these drives and
fool around, I'd like to get OpenVMS 7.2 or 7.3 installed at least on my
KA655.
While I'm saving up my pennies for a Q-bus SCSI card, does anyone know if
it's possible to do both a net-boot and a fresh VMS installation given an
existing VAXcluster where I do have a SCSI CD-ROM hooked up to one of the
machines?
I don't just want to boot it as a satellite node, I just want to use the
net-boot to bootstrap an installation since I don't have a local CD-ROM on
that machine to boot from.
If I can get it booted as a satellite maybe there's something "unsupported"
I can do to perform a network installation?
If not I guess I'll just play with 5.x until I can get a SCSI card on hand.
Thanks!
Sean
22 Nov
22 Nov
2:07 p.m.
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Sean Caron
Sent: 22 November 2014 16:40
To: classiccmp at classiccmp.org; Sean Caron
Subject: Net-boot and install OpenVMS 7.x on MicroVAX 3x00?
Hi all,
Now that I've got some BA23s I've been busy building up a few Q-bus systems.
I've got one KA650 based system with a good, booting RD54 and one
KA655 based system with a good, booting Maxtor 340 MB ESDI drive (via a
Sigma controller). Points to Maxtor for quality, I guess!
As fun as it is to boot the vintage VMS 5.x releases on these drives and fool
around, I'd like to get OpenVMS 7.2 or 7.3 installed at least on my KA655.
While I'm saving up my pennies for a Q-bus SCSI card, does anyone know if it's
possible to do both a net-boot and a fresh VMS installation given an existing
VAXcluster where I do have a SCSI CD-ROM hooked up to one of the machines?
I don't just want to boot it as a satellite node, I just want to use the net-boot to
bootstrap an installation since I don't have a local CD-ROM on that machine to
boot from.
If I can get it booted as a satellite maybe there's something
"unsupported"
I can do to perform a network installation?
If not I guess I'll just play with 5.x until I can get a SCSI card on hand.
Thanks!
Sean
The way I do this is roughly as follows:
Net boot the machine as a satellite.
Do a restore of the VMS image to the local disk. Assuming the VMS image is somewhere on
your cluster.
Mount the local disk and copy any other kits to it.
Boot the machine from the disk.
Hope that helps
Regards
Rob
23 Nov
23 Nov
12:45 p.m.
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014, Sean Caron wrote:
Hi all,
While I'm saving up my pennies for a Q-bus SCSI card, does anyone know if
it's possible to do both a net-boot and a fresh VMS installation given an
existing VAXcluster where I do have a SCSI CD-ROM hooked up to one of the
machines?
I believe it's possible...but it would require a host-based, or
hardware-based infoserver if I am remembering right.
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
7 p.m.
Yeah, I didn't realize how straightforward it was; I just used
CLUSTER_CONFIG.COM to add it to the cluster, set up the new host in NCP
just as shown in the OpenVMS clustering docs, "boot xqa0" on the MicroVAX
and off it went.
I was impressed! I've just been playing with the machine net-booted all
afternoon; it runs surprisingly quick.
Now I see it should be straightforward to just mount the install media on
my cluster node with SCSI; I can read in the backup set to the target disk
from the CD over the network, and just do the install
as per documentation
after that.
Thanks,
Sean
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014, Sean Caron wrote:
Hi all,
While I'm saving up my pennies for a Q-bus SCSI card, does anyone know if
it's possible to do both a net-boot and a fresh VMS installation given an
existing VAXcluster where I do have a SCSI CD-ROM hooked up to one of the
machines?
I believe it's possible...but it would require a host-based, or
hardware-based infoserver if I am remembering right.
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
2:18 p.m.
I don't just want to boot it as a satellite node, I just want to use the
net-boot to bootstrap an installation since I don't have a local CD-ROM on
that machine to boot from.
If you are booting from the network, you need to be able to continue to
access the system disk after initial boot and the only supported way to do
this is as part of a cluster with the node or device serving the system disk.
If I can get it booted as a satellite maybe there's something "unsupported"
I can do to perform a network installation?
It's not necessary to do anything unsupported. As Rob suggested, boot as
a satellite, copy the bits you need to a locally attached disk and then
install from that.
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.
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