Re: media of old VMS versions

On 8 okt, 19:29, shadoooo <shado...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello!
I'm an enthusiast of retrocomputing, especially of big/large machines.
Recently I acquired my first VAX machines, a 4000-100A and a 3100/20
(no frame buffer).
The 4000 works good (except a problem with the cache, that has to be
disabled) and has VMS 5.5 installed. I managed to reset the system
passwd and to start to learn about. I did a backup of the disk on DAT
tape and found that the licenses installed are good and working, good
thing! Unfortunately I don't have an installation media for thie
version of VMS.
The 3100 has some problem to boot the OS. Thre disks (two RZ23) seems
to work, but if I boot it, only the first row of text presenting VMS
5.3 appears, then the system seems to search something on all other
SCSI devices connected, in sequence, until an HALT error appears...
I tried to do a conversational boot, putting the system to "MIN" and
to enable the step-by-step log, but again nothing happens.
The idea is to reinstall the same OS in this machine (I have also 7.3,
but it's too big for this disks and RAM amount, I think), so basically
is a bootable an installation media on some kind of support, to
reinstall VMS 5.3. As far as I know, this version is no more available
around for an affordable "collector" price,
so my question is if it is possible to receive by internet an image or
something like it, in way I can use SIMH and then DD to create a DAT
tape to boot the machine from.
I think I should already have licence also for it, inside the disk of
the 3100 (as is for the 4000).
Is it a praticable idea? There's some other way to try to recover the
machine?
Thanks

You can boot the 3100 via ethernet off the system disk of the
4000-100A.
If you have a CDrom drive on it, boot V7.3 from cd and mount the
RZ23's manually
Look for dkannn:[000000...]LMF$LICENSE.LDB (where nnn is the device
id).
Next: $ def/sys LMF$LICENSE DKAnnn:[<directory name>]LMF$LICENSE.LDB
so that you can use lic list * /full for the licenses
If you want to save them, use $ license/issue/procedure/out=<filename>
*
Hans
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