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[Sampsa Laine]

Mark,

There's a way to fire off an interactive boot and then telling the startup not to start decwindows, I don't have the details handy right now, will look it up unless someone else knows it from memory - I'm a relative noob here as well.. :)

As for loading licenses, just load all of them :)

I find the easiest way to get the licenses loaded is to burn a CD with a text file containing all the lines from the hobbyist email starting with a $ sign, calling the file e.g. LOADLIC.COM.

I then mount the CD as follows:

MOUNT/MEDIA=CD-ROM/UNDEFINED=(STREAM_LF:132)/OVER=ID <DEVICE NAME>

Then just run the license file:

@<DEVICENAME>:[000000]LOADLIC.COM

Sampsa


On 16 Jun 2011, at 21:14, Mark Benson wrote:

Well I'm stuck now. I couldn't get my Licenses to validate during install so I skipped that part and put them in later. I put in the base license for OPENVMS-ALPHA and rebooted the machine. Now I am presented with a DECwindows login screen (which is some welcome progress) and I can't log in because I get the 'LMF license check has failed' error (no DECwindows license??).

If I could get out to a command-line terminal I can input some more licenses but, unlike any other CDE/Motif system I've used before the 'Options' menu has no 'Command Line Login' option.

Is there a boot flag from the SRM console or a special keystroke command I can issue, or any other method to get me to a command line?

Also does anyone know which licenses I will need to enter and operate the DECwindows 1.6 environment?

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