Here the the screen capture of my MicroVax 3400!!

From: Chad Fernandez <fernande_at_internet1.net>
Date: Thu Apr 5 19:28:02 2001

Paul Thompson wrote:
>
> You should be able to do a BOOT/R5:00000001 DIA0: and at the SYSBOOT>
> prompt do a SET STARTUP_P1 "MIN"

Took for ever for me to get that to work.

> SYSBOOT> CONTINUE to get to a minimum
> boot prompt to delete stuff. If it asks for a password and you don't know
> it you might have to gp back to SYSBOOT> and do the SET UAFALTERNATE 1 or
> "TRUE" or whatever it says in the VMS FAQ (going from memory here)

It never got to a password. It complains that a file is bad. Here is a
partial screen capture:

SYSBOOT> SET STARTUP_P1 "MIN"

SYSBOOT> CONTINUE

%SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT Mapping the SYSDUMP.DMP on the System Disk
%SYSBOOT-I-SYSBOOT SYSDUMP.DMP on System Disk successfully mapped
   OpenVMS (TM) VAX Version V6.2 Major version id = 1 Minor version
id = 0
%DECnet-I-LOADED, network base image loaded, version = 05.08.00

%SYSINIT, primary PAGEFILE.SYS not found; system initialization
continuing
Error opening primary input file SYS$INPUT
Error in file name

>
> (if you do need to crack the SYSTEM password, unlike what is says in the
> VMS FAQ I found that you don't need to enter SYSTEM as the password you
> can enter whatever you want or blank at the password prompt and then hit
> CTRL Z a few times once you've passed the password prompt and you will
> get in once that UAFALTERNATE is changed)

I'll look up the VMS faq now. I probably should look through it :-)

>
> Once in to $ you can do a
> SET DEF DIA0:[000000]
> PURGE/LOG [...]*.log,[...]*.old
> to get rid of old file versions that might be left lying around taking up
> space
> DIRECT/SEL=SIZ=MIN=1000 [...]
> to look for large files or whatever

Well, hopefully I'll get this far eventually!

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
Received on Thu Apr 05 2001 - 19:28:02 BST