> Thanks to Jeff Kaneko, who supplied the missing chassis parts, my
> VAXstation 4000/90 is all happy and ready to run.
>
> I had originally planned to install VMS 5.5-2 from a CD I'vfe had kicking
> around for ages (actually, from five years ago when I wanted to buy a
> VAXstation 3100 from Tim Shoppa), but booting the CD didn't seem
> successful.
>
> What do I need to do to install VMS on this machine? One of the drives in
> the 4000 has VMS 6.2 Standalone Backup installed, if it helps.
>
> The CD is labelled, "VMS V5.5-2 BIN CDROM Disc 1 of 1 October 1992".
The minimum bootable version of VMS for the VAXstation 4000/90 is V5.5-2HW.
I can't remember whether -2HW was the designation for the "pre-release"
version of V5.5-2 that was distributed with systems or the first hardware
support release of -2. I do know that -2H4 was a later hardware support
release of -2.
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Eric Dittman
dittman_at_dittman.net
Received on Fri Aug 31 2001 - 22:33:31 BST