MicroVAX 3100 booting question...

From: Peter Kukla <fruviad_at_coil.com>
Date: Wed Apr 25 18:03:11 2001

Newbie here...apologies if this is a stupid question.

Background: I'm a unix-geek who has used VMS in the past, but never
done any VMS administration. Naturally, when I got the opportunity
to possess my own MicroVAX 3100, I leapt at it!

I managed to get a terminal for the VAX and figured out how to boot
it, via "BOOT DKA300" at the >>> prompt. This gave me a boot sequence
of some sort, terminating in an OpenVMS 6.1 tagline and a "$" prompt.

Unfortunately, once I got to this point, I was at a loss about what
to do next. None of the VMS commands I enter are recognized as valid
commands...they all return the error:

  %CLI-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling

I haven't been able to find anything on the web that tells me what to
do next. I've even left the box running since I booted it last night,
for fear that turning it off will corrupt a mounted filesystem.

Anybody out there know what I'm not doing right, or have a URL that
points to a site for a beginner-Admin of a VMS box?


Thanks...


Peter Kukla
Received on Wed Apr 25 2001 - 18:03:11 BST