The procedure in the manual was to boot Standalone Backup via whatever console medium your machine had. When you got an OS update subscription, you paid for the media that fit your machine. Where I worked in the 80s and 90s, we got our VMS on 1600 bpi magtape with Standalone Backup on TU58s for our 11/750 and 11/730, and we got MicroVMS on RX50 diskette (uVAX-I) and TK50 (uVAX-II). The 11/780 typically got SABACKUP on RX01 disks, IIRC. The 8600 got it on RL02 packs.
I've searched but can't find images of the RX01 floppies. I mentioned in this thread the VAX-11/782 page [1] which provides a RX33 floppy image (v4.0 of Standalone Backup) and Jordi provided [2] a RL02 disk image (v4.7 of Standalone backup).
I decided that the first is probably more historical correct and used that to install the VAX/VMS v4.4 tape. Just wrote a blog post [3] (in Dutch I'm afraid) about the process and now have the screendump I wanted. More work than planned, but in the end learned a lot.
Thanks to everyone who responded to my questions. [1] http://www.9track.net/simh/vax782/ [2] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/pipermail/simh/2018-March/017920.html [3] http://www.hetlab.tk/museum/vaxvms-v4-4-prompt -- Henk van de Kamer http://www.vandekamer.com/ http://www.hetlab.tk/ _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
