--- Antonio Carlini <Antonio.Carlini_at_riverstonenet.com> wrote:
> >> 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?
IIRC, I have all the patch tapes and distros up to, but not
including 6.0, so I should have VMS 5.5-2 on magtape.
> 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!
I know it's a busy script - I've looked at it in the past.
> 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
True. I was thinking that a mostly-empty 1GB disk wouldn't have
blocks allocated from the top, but you are right - I have no
control over where stuff goes.
> >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 :-)
My best VAX processor is either the 8200 or a MicroVAX-II. Neither
have Ethernet at the moment (I'm working on getting a DEBNT going).
For all the years I was earning a living with VAXen, we never networked
ours faster than 56kbps or clustered any of them - all local disks
and sync DDCMP/HASP interconnections with Kermit occasionally thrown
in to small VAXen that lacked a sync serial port.
So at clustering, I'm a complete novice.
-ethan
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Received on Wed Jun 05 2002 - 13:56:31 BST