Alpha Server 1000A OS install and/or documentation help

From: K. M. Stoddard (kmstoddard_at_getnet.net)
Date: 11/10/03 

Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 07:30:33 -0700

I've tried every other avenue for documentation for the Alpha Server
1000A 5/500; HP's WEB site seems to be just a circular queue ("...didn't
find it here? Go back to the start, I dare you, and come back here
again.")

Here's my dilema so maybe someone has tread this path before and can tell
me which directions to turn at the forks in the road. I'm able to boot
my Alpha Server 1000A to the three chevrons (>>>), SHO PAL and find that
I have a recent version. SHO DEV and see that the internal CD ROM drive
(dka400) is present. I have VAX/VMS OS 6.2 Binaries on the CD ROM. This
is where I am stranded; I cannot find the STANDALONE BOOT documentation
for booting this CD. I'm not even sure there is a boot sector on it. I
finally (through an Australian URL) found the much refered to but seldom
available, Install and Upgrade Supplemental Guide, for VAX/VMS OS 6.2.

Now some of you may be saying, "You can't install 6.2 onto an Alpha." I
don't know. From what I am finding at HP and other WEB sites, you can
and you can't. One site says only 7.1 and up will install. Another says
6.1 and up will install.

1) Has anyone successfully installed VAX/VMS OS 6.2 on an Alpha 1000A?
2) Does anyone know where I might find any documentation on the Alpha
1000A? (I have some from the now defunct Compaq WEB site but it is not
very thorough.)
3) Does anyone have documentation or know of such documentation for
VAX/VMS OS 6.2 installation from the CD Binaries disc?

Thank you, in advance for any and all feedback.

K. M.

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