Still pineing for my own VMS machine

From: Antonio Carlini <Antonio.Carlini_at_riverstonenet.com>
Date: Wed Jun 5 13:42:15 2002

>> 5.5 is available on CD, it's just not easy to get.
>
>If I had it, I wouldn't be asking. :-)

Do you mean 5.5 or 5.5-2? I certainly have the
latter (as, I expect, do many others) and I
may have the former. Assuming you have a
hobbyist licence and can find wherever it is
that says given the licence, you can have
someone make you a copy, then I can
cartainly do that - although you may find
it easier to get someone in the US to do
it for you.

>Is that a DEC (HP) product or Freeware?

LDDRIVER was a midnight project by an engineer
inside DEC and is now on the Freeware CDs
(and is accessible on the Web from the OpenVMS
home page - browse the latest online Freeware CD).


>> Actually on second thought this would probably be easiest on a SCSI based
>> VAX with an RZ25.
>
>How about a SCSI-based Alpha?

If you want to build a bootable VAX disk (even
just S/A BACKUP then using aVAX and a container file
is by far the easiest way). You can pull apart STABACKIT.COm
from a VAX distribution and see what it does and
replicate by hand - but it's a fair amount of work!

> And how about an RZ26 that isn't more than
>65% full? If physical size really matters, I could throw an ST1480
>drive on the Alpha and have 424MB - plenty of room for this task.

The trick is to use a container disk that is
no more than 650MB (or 700MB). The problem
is that your RZ26 has too much room and you have no
control where things go unless you work at it very
hard - it's just *so* much easier to use LDRIVER
and a container file (on your RZ26 if you like).

>Would it be a problem for cross-platform? I know it's easy to make

No - just cluster a VAX with you Alpha for a
while and let it take the strain :-)

Antonio
Received on Wed Jun 05 2002 - 13:42:15 BST