Re: Installing OpenVMS Alpha on PWS 600au without CD-ROM
From: John Santos (JOHN_at_egh.com)
Date: 08/22/04
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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 03:38:35 -0400
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, David Froble wrote:
> Starlet731 wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a problem with the following:
> >
> > PWS 600au has no supported CD-ROM drive for OpenVMS (i.e. not 512 byte
> > sectored)!
> > So I can not boot the installation CD-ROM on the PWS. I have OpenVMS V7.3-1
> > and an AlphaServer 1000 4/200 with a supported CD-ROM drive and OpenVMS
> > installed on it.
> > Now I have read that I can install OpenVMS on the PWS via the network
> > (ethernet) form the AlphaServer with a cluster configuration. By the way: I
> > use the hobbyist licenses.
> > How must I accomplish this to get OpenVMS installed on the local disk on the
> > PWS? Can I do that directly from the mounted OpenVMS installation CD-ROM on
> > the AlphaServer (via the net), or must I do this another way?
> > Is there a link on the net with a more detailed explanation to do this?
> >
> > Thank you for your help!
> >
> >
> >
>
> 1) take the PWS disk, put it in the AlphaServer 1000, build VMS, move disk back
> to PWS, autogen.
>
> 2) take CD drive from AS 1000, put in PWS, build VMS.
>
> 3) (best option) get another CD drive for PWS. You can find one for well under
> $20. Maybe under $10.
>
> Dave
If PWS will boot over the network, you can add a 2nd node for it on the
AS1000 ($ @sys$manager:cluster_config_lan), boot it into the cluster,
enable MSCP disk serving on it, mount the PWS disk /foriegn (on either
the AS1000 or the PWS), backup/image/ignore=interlock AS1000_disk: PWS_disk:,
dismount the PWS_DISK:, remount it file-structured, change its label to
avoid conflicts, ana/disk/repair it to fix the broken stuff due to the
online backup, shutdown and reboot the PWS from its local disk, using
the root directory you made for it. If the two systems are not going to
permanenly live in a cluster, change VAXCLUSTER to 0 in MODPARAMS.DAT,
autogen and reboot.
Remember you'll still have to use the PWS's root directory when you
boot it, either from its local disk or via the network, or it will think
it is the AS1000, leading to network conflicts.
Deleting the extra roots and renaming the remaining on to [sys0.] is
left as an exercise for the reader.
-- John Santos Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc. 781-861-0670 ext 539
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