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The Question is:
Hello,
We've recently aquired a VAX 8530 system in the Electronics Club at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. We were lucky to find it being thrown out,
and also lucky to have 3-phase power to run it. :)
Anyways, since the RA82 hard drive that probably had VMS installed on
it fails to spin up, we need VMS media to install the OS on one of our other
hard drives. This means that we need a 6250bpi tape for our TU81+ tape drive,
and the right floppy disk fo
r our "VAX Console" to bootstrap the machine. Obviously, simply getting the
hobbyist OpenVMS CD doesn't do us much good. Do you have any suggesstions as
to where/how we may get the proper media for our system? I'm hoping that you
may have such media
somewhere around there. (We don't need the latest version, if you can't find
it. We'd just like something that supports TCP/IP)
Thanks,
Derek Konigsberg
RPI Electronics Club, President
konigd@rpi.edu
The Answer is :
You have various options: you can locate an InfoServer (which can serve
a CD-ROM to this system and the VAX 8530 can then network bootstrap),
or you can order a nine-track OpenVMS distribution kit (these kits are
currently still available from Compaq), or you can locate somebody that
can provide you with a standalone BACKUP kit on the necessary nine-track
media, and copies of the VMS0%%.% and DECW0%%.% savesets on the same or
associated non-track media, or you can cable the "B" port of the RA82
drive over to another OpenVMS system that has direct access to a CD-ROM
drive and load it from there.
The VAX Console software required for the Pro console was generally only
distributed by the Compaq Field Service organization.
Though there have clearly been discussions of this topic in the OpenVMS
newsgroups, the OpenVMS Wizard would hope you have already been in
direct contact with the folks at the Compaq office in Albany NY.
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