[HECnet] OpenVMS on VAXstation 4000/60

[G.]

On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 17:29:33 -0400, Cory Smelosky wrote:

I'm not even seeing a jumper for it on the drive.   Drive is a crippled 
Apple CR-507-C (Hey!   It's the only working SCSI CD-ROM drive I have!)

Why don't you install over the network? It would be somewhat time consuming,
but trying to find a working CD-ROM drive isn't fast either.

Set up a Simh instance as a cluster boot server and the VAXstation as a
satellite without local paging or swapping, boot it, initialize its internal
disk, restore the B saveset onto it, copy the other savesets to the root
directory, shutdown, reboot from the local disk and proceed from there. :)

Otherwise, if you have a spare SCSI disk, you could dump the installation
image onto it (e.g. with dd) and use it as if it were a CD-ROM.

Otherwise, if you have an Infoserver (either hardware or software) use it. :)

HTH,
G.