On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Tom Uban wrote:
> I seem to recall seeing some information on this in the past, but
> I haven't been able to dredge any up.
>
> Does anyone know if a VXT2000 can be booted from a non-dec unix or
> windows box?
>
> Also, does anyone know where the binaries, etc can be found?
>
> --tnx
> --tom
>
Yes, you can boot it from any unix system. When booting it tries a variety
of protocols, at least on is rarp with tftp followup, but it also tries
lat.
The x terminal management software is included on the freeware version of
VMS which contains the binary boot images. You can still download it
from compaq, I haven't got the url handy right now. However, I've not been
able to decode it, I assume it's in vmsbackup format, but I haven't found
a tool which will actually read it, so I might be wrong.
However, I did find an image for it some time ago, it's a test version
of the full fledged everything and the kitchen sink version of the boot
image, including a terminal program and window manager. This requires
quite a bit of memory to work. You can get it at:
http://www.dnd.utwente.nl/~auke/VXT/VXT021K7.SYS
regards,
Auke van Slooten
Received on Tue Jun 12 2001 - 12:36:46 BST