18 Apr
2008
18 Apr
'08
10:41 p.m.
I have recently restored a VAXStation 3100. The 200Mb drive was replaced
by a 1.05Gb (that's the biggest boot drive size)
I made up a cable to connect a colour monitor to the 15Way plug on the
3100. Switch on and it ran the diagnostics and gave the
familiar three chevron prompt. T 75 reformats the drive. (takes forever)
I used the second drive position to connect a RRD-42 CD drive and booted
from my VAX -VMS hobbyists disk.
I then loaded
VAX-VMS 7.3. So far so good. It works just fine.
Now for my ultimate goal; load and run DECWindows. I ran the install as
per the manual
(that's a book that tells you everything you don't need to know and
nothing that you do).
It completed. I then ran the IVP as per instructions. Its at this point
that the book is a
bit ambiguous. its not clear how to tell if the system is a work station
or a server and
how to start up DECWindows from a VMS $ prompt in either case.
If anybody has installed and run DECWindows on a 3100 under VMS 7.3
I'd be very pleased hear how they did it from the point where DECWindows
was installed.
Rod Smallwood
19 Apr
19 Apr
1:40 a.m.
Rod Smallwood wrote:
Switch on and it ran the diagnostics and gave the
familiar three chevron prompt.
Did the dead sergeant come up on the monitor? If not then the switch at
the
back is set to be a VAXserver.
T 75 reformats the drive. (takes
forever)
Not necessary (although apparently harmless, since you've done it :-))
Its at this point that the book is a bit
ambiguous. its not clear how to tell if the system is a work station
or a server and
That switch at the back. What does
$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT f$getsyi("hw_name")
say?
how to start up DECWindows from a VMS $ prompt in
either case.
I _think_ that if you do nothing then DECwindows just starts
(as long as it thinks this is a workstation).
If you've defined the logical DECW$IGNORE_DECWINDOWS to TRUE
then you'll need to start it manuall with @SYS$MANAGER:DECW$STARTUP.COM.
Try running this manually from the $ prompt: it may tell you what's
wrong.
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5:21 a.m.
There is a switch on the motherboard which determines if it is a
vaxstation or microvax. The only difference is the microvax won't run
decwindows.
Sorry I don't have anymore information than that....
Clint
6:34 p.m.
2008/4/19, Rod Smallwood <RodSmallwood at mail.ediconsulting.co.uk>:
Now for my ultimate goal; load and run DECWindows. I
ran the install as
per the manual
(that's a book that tells you everything you don't need to know and
nothing that you do).
- http://icanhaz.com/decw_cookbook
(Maybe this could come in handy.)
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