From: carlini@true.lkg.dec.com
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 3:23 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: Booting a Vax 4090 from Infoserver CD

In article <391B0E32.E75C58E4@ikp.tu-darmstadt.de>, "Dr. Otto Titze" <titze@ikp.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:

>how can I boot an OS VMS CD on an InfoServer for a complete system
>generation
>from a VAX WS 4060? I know how to do this for every Alpha but I looked
>through
>all my older documentation and found nothing. In the VMS_Install manual
>on the OS CD e.g. 6.2 there is only an example for a VAX6000
>(B/r5:100/x:../d:...)

This is from memory - I haven't done this in a few years and I don't have the 
right stuff running to check. I'm fairly sure this is correct in priciple - 
just the essential details might be wrong :-)

From the console prompt (>>>) SHOW DEVICE should show you what the name of the 
ethernet device is; I'm guessing that it is EZA0 but it might be ESA0. Once 
you know what it is you can do:

        >>> B/100 EZA0

and when it asks for Bootfile: you enter ISL_SVAX_xxx where xxx is likely to 
be 062 or 071 or 072 depending on which version of OpenVMS CD your infoserver 
is serving.

You should end up with a menu that lets you pick a particular service to boot 
from. If you pick the right one you will end up in Standalone Backup then you 
can procede as you would for a fresh install of OpenVMS (which is what I think 
you are trying to do).

"Modern" OpenVMS distribution CDs have a bootable version of OpenVMS available 
as the [SYS1] root (I think ...). You should be able to boot this instead by 
starting with:

        >>> B/10000100 EZA0

but if all you want to do is get OpenVMS up and running, then you don't need 
to do this.

This should work on all "small" VAXes that support netbooting - except the 
network device name changes (EZA0, ESA0, XQA0 etc.). For the VAX 6000 series 
(and some others too I guess) you boot ISL_LVAX_xxx instead (LVAX for Large 
VAX vs SVAX for Small VAX, I suppose) and the way you specify the netwrok 
device is also different (and more complicated).

Antonio



Antonio Carlini                            Mail: carlini@true.lkg.dec.com
DECnet-Plus for OpenVMS Engineering
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