VaxStation 3100 revisited

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Sun Apr 23 00:41:44 2000

>> Well... Alot of intervening miles later, one MMJ cable later, one doubly
>>terminated BNC T later, my VaxStation 3100's a little happier. Still not
>>booting though. SHOW DEV shows ESA0 (default boot) and the floppy (I forget
>>the dau) and DKA300 which it will not boot from. I take it these were
>>booted from somewhere else on the network. How can I get VMS on the DKA300
>>or at least see what's already there? Help!
>
> Thanks
> - Mike
>
> Well if it will nto boot from DAK300 (b DKA300 should work) then there
>is no OS and it was stripped.
>
> To get VMS on it you need the hobby CD (montagar) and a SCSI CDrom that
>can do small block size.
>
> Allison

Well, since it the default boot is set to ESA0 it was most likely set up
for a network boot off of a cluster disk. That means you've most likely
got a RZ23 for the Hard Disk, which was used for the pagefile and swapfile.
While it's possible to fit OpenVMS on a 100Mb drive, you'll probably want
to find a larger drive. I've found a RZ25 is comfortable on a 3100 for a
little light compiling.

                        Zane
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