MicroVAX 3100 booting question...

From: Fred deBros <fdebros_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Wed Apr 25 19:45:03 2001

at the $ prompt you are in the cms os. like dos
for every cmd there is help.
h dir
h login
h find

try login

good luck!

To reboot press the button in the back between the kbd and the bnc plug,
brings you back to >>> which is the bios sortof, there too help... or show
devices etc. For manuals etc go to vaxarchive.

nice machine for netBSD/vax, even runs wscons, multiple consoles etc. no
color graphics support.
at 32mb of memory, its about a 486 style machine in bsd. not too hot!

Fred
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kukla" <fruviad_at_coil.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 7:03 PM
Subject: MicroVAX 3100 booting question...


> 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 - 19:45:03 BST