[HECnet] Older VAXVMS Install kits?

[Cory Smelosky]

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