[HECnet] Pathworks for VMS V4.1 kit anywhere ?

[Wilm Boerhout]

Thanks David and Reindert. I managed to get PCSA server and client V4.1 
running using this route.

Now, I have a VAX with all the supporting software, and a VAXmate 
connected to my LAN using (!) thinwire, and after startup the VAXmate 
begs for a downline load that I can see coming in to my PCSAPI node (29.211)

All the PCSA client docs point to client setup starting with a floppy 
boot and using NETSETUP on DOS. There are relevant flopyy /images/ 
available on the 'net, but this VAXmate is unimaginative, so to speak. 
It needs a real floppy.

Or is there a way to construct a downline load image for VAXmate on the 
server side? The docs do not specify this

*Wilm*

David Moylan schreef op 20-10-2020 om 02:54:
> I think I've managed to hunt this down.
>
> I'll show you how I got there, because it's a useful path.
>
> I first went to Martin's ConDist CD list:
> http://de.openvms.org/martinv/VMS_CD_KITS.html
>
> and looked for "PCSA" and found two 041 releases. These are on the CDBIN04SEP2 and CDBIN10NOV2 distributions respectively.
>
> I then went searching for these two distributions and got a hit on an archived HECnet post on hecnet.eu from 2013 by Mark Wickens.
> It says the CDBIN10NOV2 is available on SLAVE:: (which appears not to be online), but also gives an http link to the associated archive.
>
> http://hecnet.eu/archive/VAX_MEDIA/1992_nov_cdbin10nov2/
>
> and so I searched through the directories and found:
>
> http://hecnet.eu/archive/VAX_MEDIA/1992_nov_cdbin10nov2/cdbin10nov27/pcsa041/kit/
> http://hecnet.eu/archive/VAX_MEDIA/1992_nov_cdbin10nov2/cdbin10nov27/pcsau1041/kit/
>
> I hope that's what you were looking for :-)
>
> Cheers, Wiz!!
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-
>> hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Wilm Boerhout
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>> Subject: [HECnet] Pathworks for VMS V4.1 kit anywhere ?
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I have become the proud owner of a VAXmate workstation, with a disk
>> enclosure pizzabox attached.
>>
>> It is working in that it attempts to boot from disk (which fails), and
>> then boots from the network, and I see a load request coming in on my VAX.
>>
>> Now I am looking for the supporting software.
>>
>> It looks like Pathworks V4.1 could be of use. I have tracked a kit
>> PCSACLIENT041 (.A and .B), but it requires the PCSA041 server kit, of
>> which, oddly enough, I do have .B but not .A
>>
>> Is the PCSA041 kit available on HECnet somewhere ?
>>
>>
>> *Wilm*
>>