I actually tried that with my vax and vms. No luck. It gave me the same
bomb as the wrong cdrom drive did. I have however done this several times
with Solaris on my Sparcstation though. For some reason, the sparc won't
boot from CDrom PERIOD. Even the rrd40 doesn't help this one.
Regards,
Jeff
In <20011223000837.T70852-100000_at_mail.huebner.org>, on 12/23/01
at 12:20 AM, Hans H?bner <hans_at_Huebner.ORG> said:
>On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>> Reminds me of my V3100 - quite some trouble installing VMS on it too.
>> Reading the FAQs I guessed that any drive supporting 512 byte blocksize
>> should do. So I tried several Plextor drives and a Toshiba (all set to
>> 512 byte/block) - not much success, the VS3100 would start to boot and
>> after a drop a screenful of error message on me.
>A friend of mine came up with a good solution to this problem: If no
>bootable CDROM drive is available, use a second hard drive with enough
>space to accomodate a block-wise copy of the VMS installation CD (should
>be no more than 500 MB, but i have not checked lately). Use a Unix
>system to copy the VMS installation CD to this second HDD, then boot and
>install from that.
>-Hans
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