[HECnet] Older VAXVMS Install kits?

[Cory Smelosky]

On 23 Dec 2012, at 21:33, "Steve Davidson" <jeep at scshome.net> wrote:



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On 23 Dec 2012, at 21:23, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

On 2012-12-24 03:05, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:
Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> writes:

I might have the wrong tape.

Is there some specific reason for V4.6?

Get a news VMS version -- I can make V6.something or V7.something 
available for you -- and then, restore the .B save set to 
your boot 
device.   Then, you boot from the system disk to continue 
the install.   
Back then, VMS was dis- tributed on tape.   I've no idea how you 
access that from SimH.   During the boot, VMS will prompt 
you to enter 
where the distribution media is mounted and then, it will 
just do the 
rest -- just answer to the questions as they arise.

If I can find the time, I'll get to my storage unit and 
pull the V4 
(orange
wall) tomes with the installation notes for 11/780 just in case.

As I remember the procedure, it's kindof tricky to see how 
you'd do it in simh.
On a real 11/780, you'd boot the standalone backup first. 
Not sure, but I think that would have been a bunch of RX01 floppies.
One the standalone backup is running, you can restore the 
distribution tape .B saveset to the destination disk, and 
after that, things starts getting easier.

However, as simh don't have the FE, nor RX01, how do you 
get the standalone backup running?
I wonder if you could use the standalone backup from a 
newer VMS to install a really old version. Recent CD 
distributions boot the standalone backup, and I suspect you 
would able to boot simh into that.

I'm booting VMS 7.3 and running backup from there to image it 
to another disk. Does it NEED to be standalone backup?


Not sure what Cory's real problem is though, as he claims 
he now restores the .B saveset and still don't get a bootable 
system. Did the backup restore the saveset without complaints?
What is the name of the saveset you are restoring, Cory?
Have you atleast read through the installation manual for a 
recent VMS? I think the basic procedure is unchanged.

It copies the backup set without issue.   Am I perhaps 
attaching it to the wrong tape device? (tq)


	Johnny




It can be standalone or not.   Try:

$backup/image/verify <version-saveset>.b/save <device>:

THAT worked.


Shutdown and boot the <device>.   You will need the rest of the VMS
savesets (.C, .D, etc) during the installation process.

Booted!


-Steve