From: Tim Llewellyn [tim.llewellyn@blueyonder.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 11:43 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: simh is back up.



WarlockD wrote:
> 
> Can you install VMS on a MicroVAX 3900?
> 
> Thats the current emulation that is going on simh.  What can you install if
> you can't?

Warlock,

I installed VMS 7.2 on the latest Simh (running on linux, having grief
getting mingw and gcc on Windows working) this week. 

You CAN do it.

However, both the Simh and ts10 docs seem pretty thin on the ground. I was
lucky to find a posting from earlier in the year in comp.os.vms that got me going.
Try googling and looking for threads with simh from april.

eg

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=simh&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=E1F73441CC409FD2.D7B3B18795A42B54.50D65134C752B46F%40lp.airnews.net&rnum=10

FWIW, I could not connect direct to the CD, so I put the OpenVMS VAX 7.2 in the
cdrom on the linux box and copied it to an image file on disk

# cp /dev/cdrom1 vms72

(no need to even mount the CD! good news as vmscd won't play fair on Mandrake)

and managed to install from that.

FWIW, my vax.ini file looks like this (I copied ka655.bin to my working directory for some reason)

$ more vax.ini
set cpu 64M
load -r ka655.bin
set rq0 ra82
attach rq0 vaxsys.dsk
set rq1 cdrom
attach -r rq1 /home/tim/vms72
boot cpu

The proceed as if you are installing VMS from the console,

>>> B dua1

to boot standalone backup

$ backup dua1:vms072.b/save/image/verify dua0:

etc

Hope this helps.

Now, if only I could get ts10 configured I want to build a cluster of simulated
VAXen (no network support in Simh).

Regards,

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