Help wanted with an Open VMS installation

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Wed Feb 4 17:22:25 2004

Are you trying to use the Hobbyist V3 CD to install from? I was helping a
coworker install VMS on her DEC 3000, and we couldn't get it to install on
any of the HD's we tried. Finally I pulled out a copy of something like
7.2-2 (Real Compaq CD's), and it installed just fine. One of the two
Hobbyist V3 CD's we had access to wouldn't even boot the DEC 3000.

                Zane


> The show device command displays the ethernet connection followed by
>
> the CDROM as..
> BOOTDEV=DKA500
> ADDR=A/5/0
> DEVTYPE=RODISK
> NUMBYTES=681.88MB
> RM/FX=RM
> WP=WP
> DEVNAM=CD-ROM
> REV=1.1C
>
> and it shows the hard disk as...
> BOOTDEV=DKA100
> ADDR=A/1/0
> DEVTYPE=DISK
> NUMBYTES=1.00GB
> RM/FX=Fx
> WP=
> DEVNAM=RZ57
> REV=5000
>
> I have actually tried 5 different hard disks: 3 seagate models and 2
> original DEC RZ57 drives, but they all end with the same error message
> while installing!!! I have proved the 3 seagate disks on a scsi card on
> a PC and the 2 DEC drives work OK on a DEC 5000 machine booting up a
> copy of Ultrix, so I am pretty sure the problem is not actually with the
> disk drives.
Received on Wed Feb 04 2004 - 17:22:25 GMT