Still pineing for my own VMS machine

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Wed Jun 5 16:27:54 2002

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

It would be really nice if someone could make the first Hobbyist CD
available. As far as I'm concerned the V2 CD is basically worthless (OK, I
confess that's becuase I've plenty of real Compaq/DEC kits), however, the V1
CD has all kinds of cool stuff on it as well as various versions of VAX/VMS
between 5.5 and 6.1.

> > What you want instead of mkisofs is something called the "Logical Disk
> > Driver", IIRC. That allows you to create a CD sized ODS-2 logical disk
> > that you can copy stuff onto.
>
> Is that a DEC (HP) product or Freeware?

Freeware. Check the FAQ, it's probably got pointers.

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

I'm not sure what it would take to build standalone backup on a disk
attached to an Alpha, or if it's even possible. As for a RZ26, I suspect
you'd have some major problems, however, I don't know for sure. The ST1480
would be a safer choice.

> Would it be a problem for cross-platform? I know it's easy to make
> a disk on your own machine bootable to standalone (SYSE and whatnot).
> I guess given the DCL script to make the standalone partition in the
> first place, it wouldn't be impossible to modify it to pull from
> someplace other than SYS$SYSROOT.

By cross-platform are you talking VAX vs. Alpha, or VAX vs. PC? In either
case I really don't know, the VAX vs. Alpha concerns me.

> Pity it probably won't fit on a ZIP disk - I'll have to physically
> move a drive from machine to machine.

I think for V5.5 you'll need roughly 150MB for the full install (at least
IIRC it will fit on a RD54).

> That's the easy part. I'll probably do it on SPARCstation instead of
> an Intel Linux box, but that's no big deal.

Hmmm, I like that idea! I think you just pointed out how I can save some
space!

                        Zane
Received on Wed Jun 05 2002 - 16:27:54 BST