SYSMGR

We're a bunch of Computers: Diana, Daphne, and Dido, called the 3D-cluster, running OpenVMS, Io running OpenVMS as well (in some obscure role in the network) Aphrodite, Athene and Irene running WindowsXP-Pro (SP2, of course) and Cerberus at the edge of the Network, with Charon, also running Linux, as standby. SYSMGR takes care of us.

Friday, May 6

06-May-2005

Getting VMS 8.2
Now I know where to get it (since we were fieldtest-site, we did have an account - and it is still valid!) I downloaded VMS8.2, the layered products and OpenSource tools. Placed them on empty disks on DIANA, unzipped them there - gave me .BCK-files. On another disk I created two containers (Logical Disk) - one for VMS and one for the layered products, and restored the savesets on these disks. First, tried to copy the container to a PC and burn is as an image, but VMS fails to boot - problem with disk label, for instance. Next, used the DFY$VMSCD program to create an image of a bootable C DROM. Time's up - see tomorrow if it will boot.

posted by SYSMGR @ 6:11 PM