Booting VMS 5.5 from tape?

From: Clint Wolff <vaxman_at_uswest.net>
Date: Mon May 15 21:34:12 2000

Hi Chuck,

You have to boot the last tape (labeled standalone backup I believe),
or any fairly recent standalone backup program will work. I have a
5.x I can send you if your tape is bad.

clint


On Mon, 15 May 2000, Chuck McManis wrote:

> I finally found my VMS 5.5 TK50's today and thought I would try to install
> VMS on my MicroVAX II. The tape loads in the TK50 just fine, but after typing
> B MUA0:
> It reads and reads and reads ...
>
> Now I know TK50's are _really_ slow to boot (NetBSD takes about 5 minutes)
> but is this the only thing going on? There isn't some boot flag I need to
> give the tape to insure that it does the right thing is there? I keep
> expecting to see the standalone backup prompt and I keep right on waiting....
>
> --Chuck
>
>
>
Received on Mon May 15 2000 - 21:34:12 BST