[HECnet] Which DECnet interfaces support remote, unattended, booting?

[Cory Smelosky]

On Fri, 17 May 2013, Johnny Billquist wrote:


On 2013-05-17 21:13, Cory Smelosky wrote:

On Fri, 17 May 2013, Bob Armstrong wrote:

Really?   Not from tape?   Interesting design choice...

Old VAXes booted standalone BACKUP from the console media (TU58 or
RX01).
SA BACKUP then could talk to tape drives just fine.   It's all you need to
install VMS, so that was all they did.


Ah right.   Makes more sense how.

How were the VAX BSDs installed then?   Standalone bootloader on a floppy?

The one time I did it, I actually hacked the boot loader into memory
from the console, and started from there. The boot loader was listed in
the manual.
But (as I mentioned in another mail), this came from MtXinu. Not sure
how other BSDs did it, as I never had an original distribution from any
other.

But once you had the system installed, you also created a console media
which could boot the thing, as VMB was not able to boot a Unix system
anyway, even from disk.


Ahhh.   That'd be why when I've installed 4.3BSD on the -11/780 simulator I needed an external executable to boot it.

	Johnny



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