VAX 6000-460 booting saga continues ...

From: Johnny Billquist <bqt_at_update.uu.se>
Date: Sun Dec 30 06:24:44 2001

On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Hans H?bner wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Gunther Schadow wrote:
>
> > The 6460 is still waiting to boot Ultrix.
>
> Am I missing something? In my memories, Ultrix does support only one CPU. It
> would be a shame to have 5 idle CPUs, but if you insist on doing so, just send
> the unused CPU boards to my direction so that we can beef up vax6k.openecs.org
> :)

No, Ultrix is SMP.

> > Recap: it's up and running from VMS 7.2 or VMX 5.6 from RA90
> > disks through KDB50 and KDM70. I don't have any working IP
> > communication because the VMS 5.6 just doesn't have anything [...]
>
> Have you tried CMUTEK TCP/IP? It run's "pretty well" under VMS 5.x and it is
> free. CMUTEK is available from ftp://ftp.csus.edu/pub/cmuip/.

It's the chicken and egg... How to get TCP/IP when you need TCP/IP to get
it... :-)

        Johnny

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