Still pineing for my own VMS machine

From: Antonio Carlini <Antonio.Carlini_at_riverstonenet.com>
Date: Wed Jun 5 14:56:55 2002

>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).

The easy option is to buy or borrow a DELQA - but
I think we've been there before :-)

The alternative is to have someone who does have
a VAX running V5.5-2 and sufficient disk space to
build you a 650MB disk container file with OpenVMS V5.5-2
S/A BACKUP on it, drop it on a 700MB CD (or build
a 700MB container file and zip it up and drop that
on CD) and post it to you.

Then you pop the CD into your Alpha and copy
off the resulting container file, connect an
LD device to it and just add files to [000000]
until cooked.

Then take that and burn to CD.

If you had asked about two years ago I could
have done that easily. Right now I have no VAX
running V5.5-2. Why does your S/A BACKUP
have to be 5.5-2? Will not V7.2 do? All you
want to do is boot and install whatever
version of OpenVMS you have put togetehr, no?

Antonio
Received on Wed Jun 05 2002 - 14:56:55 BST