Diskless VMS install
Glen Slick
glen.slick at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 20:26:45 CDT 2020
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>
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