First VAX-11/730 VMS Boot! (was: Re: VAX-11/730 %BOOT-F-Unexpected Machine Check)

[Jerry Weiss]

Very good progress.

Suggest you initialize and mount the tapes first, then do the backup.  

$init mta0:/density=1600  JUN2015

$mount mta0: JUN2015

Substitute your actual tape device name for mta0: and need to use  /density as applicable.



Jerry Weiss, WB9MRI
jsw at ieee.org



> On Jun 13, 2015, at 5:51 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jun 13, 2015, at 14:29, Peter Coghlan <cctalk at beyondthepale.ie> wrote:
>> Did I say that?
>> 
>> I meant:
>> 
>> $ spawn /nowait @sys$system:startup.com
>> 
>> (sorry)
> 
> Aha! Now I understand.
> 
> Ok, I have the SYSTEM password reset, and the license pak installed. Next task is to perform backups. First attempt to do that has presented my next learning opportunity:
> 
> How do I respond to tape mount requests on the same console where I'm running BACKUP? When I get the request asking whether to create a new tape volume, it doesn't seem to respond to terminal input.
> 
> -- 
> Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
> http://www.nf6x.net/
>