> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:simh-bounces@trailing- > edge.com] On Behalf Of Eric Smith > Sent: 01 July 2014 21:22 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Simh] Booting a real VAX from an emulated one > > I apologize in advance .. I may well be posting this in the wrong forum. If so, if > someone would be so kind as to redirect me offline I would appreciate it. > > I have a uVAX 3900 I rescued about 10 years ago. It was headed for a > dumpster. It has two 300 meg drives and 16M of RAM, one non-functional tape > drive, and a qbus card I have a 10 meg network adapter plugged into. > > It had VMS v 5.something on it I believe at the time. Over the years I > (inadvertently) mangled that installation trying to learn VMS and ended up > putting an instance of OpenBSD on it. I did this by running mopd on another > unix box and booting the VAX over the network. > > I would like to install VMS on it again, but not sure how to get it there. The > tape drive doesn't pull tape anymore. > > I'm thinking you VMS experts know a way I can use my SIMH VAX VMS > emulation to boot the real VAX from? I'm thinking it is possible to boot VMS this > way, and/or do a VMS installation this way, correct? > > Again, I realize this isn't a purely SIMH post, so if more appropriate to contact > me offline, please do. Any direct help or just pointers to an online resource > would be much appreciated. > > Thanks! > Eric KD5UWL > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
I do this regularly. Don't have a lot of time at the moment to explain, but the basic thing to do is create a cluster on SIMH, then add your real machine as a satellite (you need to know it's MAC address). Hope that gives you some pointers. Regards Rob _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
