Diskless VMS install

[Glen Slick]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 3:15 PM John H. Reinhardt via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>  From the guy that wrote the Infoserver stuff for SimH
>
> <https://www.9track.net/simh/infoserver>  "InfoServer Software on Simh"
>
> InfoServer software: <ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/openvms/freeware/infoserver/>
>

That is a nice How-To on setting up an SIMH InfoServer 150.

One step that is missing is adding the Disk Function. That might be
necessary to be able to share the OpenVMS 7.3 installation CD image
from the InfoServer.

>From the Freeware infoserver.zip file:
InfoServer 100/150 Disk Function (Open Access)
ag-pjxka-re.img


sim> SHOW RZ
RZ      7 units
  RZ1   209MB, attached to infoserver.rz24,
        RZ24, autosize, RAW format
  RZ2   50MB, attached to ag-r7lfa-bs.img, read only,
        RZ24, autosize, RAW format
sim> DETACH RZ2
sim> ATTACH RZ2 ag-pjxka-re.img
RZ2: unit is read only
RZ2: 'ag-pjxka-re.img' Contains ODS2 File system
RZ2: Volume Name: BLANK        Format: DECFILE11B   Sectors In Volume: 400176
sim> BOOT CPU

KA41-2  V1.0

F_..E...D...C?..B?..A...9_..8?..7...6...5?..4_..3_..2_..1?..

??  C  0080  0000.0004
??  B  0010  0010.0020
??  8  0060  0000.0002
 ?  6  80A1  0000.4001
??  5  0001  0000.000A
??  1  00C0  0000.100C

>>> BOOT DKA100

-DKA100

InfoServer 150 V3.5
Copyright (c) 1990 - 1997 Digital Equipment Corporation
%ESS-I-CONFIGDEV, Device configuration complete.  2 devices found
%ESS-I-VERIFY, Verifying DK1:

Enter Password:

Digital Equipment Corporation
InfoServer 150 V3.5

InfoServer> SHOW FUNCTIONS

                 * Function Information for InfoServer V3.5 *

InfoServer Functions Installed:         Other Functions Available:
-------------------------------         --------------------------
X-terminal services                     Open disk access (any client)
                                        Open tape access (any client)
                                        CD-R functions

Additional functions from the 'Other Functions Available' list can be
installed from Function-CDROMs available from Digital.  Contact your Digital
representative to purchase additional functions.

InfoServer> UPDATE FUNCTIONS DK2:
%ESS-I-DEFAULT, Defaulting to DK1:
%ESS-I-UPDATE, Update request completed successfully.

InfoServer> SHOW FUNCTIONS

                 * Function Information for InfoServer V3.5 *

InfoServer Functions Installed:         Other Functions Available:
-------------------------------         --------------------------
X-terminal services                     Open tape access (any client)
Open disk access (any client)           CD-R functions

Additional functions from the 'Other Functions Available' list can be
installed from Function-CDROMs available from Digital.  Contact your Digital
representative to purchase additional functions.

InfoServer>