VAX 4000-500 travails...

From: William S . <wilby98_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri Dec 28 13:26:48 2001

I have no practical experience in OS's for VAX's however
I have seen many references to OpenVMS. NetBSD is
probably a good choise as well but wouldn't
OpenVMS be more "native" to the machine?
Again, I am only suggesting this based on what I
have seen turn up in the archives and at various
sites.

Bill
Amsterdam, NL

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:42:21AM -0700, Chris Craft wrote:
> I was lucky enough to be given a VAX 4k500, but am now looking for advice on
> how to get an os installed... NetBSD 5.1.2 halts trying to boot from the CD,
> right after loading the kernel, I'm slogging around in mopd.c and friends
> trying to find out why, when moptrace tells me everything's getting there OK,
> that mopd says it's getting protocol request "9100" instead of "6001", and
> I'm still waiting on Encompass/DECUS-US to get my membership processed so I
> can get license keys for VMS. (Sigh!)
>
> Anyone have advice/clues/pointers?
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