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by sampsa＠mac.com

Gerry, Your friend with the I64 on your retro network wouldn't be willing to share some layered product installers (i.e. compilers etc), I've got the paks but again no install media. Sampsa On 15 Sep 2008, at 22:11, gerry77 at mail.com wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:52:24 +0100, you wrote: Yeah, the EFI stuff is ACTUALLY quite self explanatory, I think I should be able to get the Netboot working. Now I don't actually have a SCSI drive to do the install onto, so will have fun seeing what USB devices will work :) Are you sure you do want to go with a USB disk? Reading around about either VMS or EFI USB support, it appears that it could be a nightmare... Wouldn't be better to spend your efforts looking for a SCSI disk instead? :) G.

16 years, 2 months

Itanium install media

by sampsa＠mac.com

Oh of course I'll get a SCSI disk in due time, like a week or so :) But for now I'll try a USB drive, I think VMS on a pendrive would be a nice little hack. Sampsa On 15 Sep 2008, at 22:11, gerry77 at mail.com wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:52:24 +0100, you wrote: Yeah, the EFI stuff is ACTUALLY quite self explanatory, I think I should be able to get the Netboot working. Now I don't actually have a SCSI drive to do the install onto, so will have fun seeing what USB devices will work :) Are you sure you do want to go with a USB disk? Reading around about either VMS or EFI USB support, it appears that it could be a nightmare... Wouldn't be better to spend your efforts looking for a SCSI disk instead? :) G.

16 years, 2 months

Itanium install media

by gerry77＠mail.com

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:52:24 +0100, you wrote: Yeah, the EFI stuff is ACTUALLY quite self explanatory, I think I should be able to get the Netboot working. Now I don't actually have a SCSI drive to do the install onto, so will have fun seeing what USB devices will work :) Are you sure you do want to go with a USB disk? Reading around about either VMS or EFI USB support, it appears that it could be a nightmare... Wouldn't be better to spend your efforts looking for a SCSI disk instead? :) G.

16 years, 2 months

Itanium install media

by sampsa＠mac.com

Yeah, the EFI stuff is ACTUALLY quite self explanatory, I think I should be able to get the Netboot working. Now I don't actually have a SCSI drive to do the install onto, so will have fun seeing what USB devices will work :) Sampsa On 15 Sep 2008, at 20:50, gerry77 at mail.com wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:57:25 +0100, you wrote: You seemed to know a bit about the integrity boxes, I've just got an rx2600, but have NO idea what to do next. I've hooked up the management processor to a DHCP-serving LAN, but it's not picking up an IP address. Any idea how to reset it to factory defaults? I've seen on comp.os.vms that you've managed to resolve your problems and I'm glad about that because I do not know anything about Itanium hardware: I'm an Italian DECnet group member, that's true, and we do have an Itanium system on our network, but... That system is in Rome and I'm in Bologna (about 500 km north of Rome), so I've never put my hands on it! :-P If I remember correctly you'll have to fiddle with EFI menus to start a PXE network boot (a combination of bootp and tftp) and then using InfoServer you should be able to start OpenVMS 8.x installation, then you'll have to fiddle again with EFI to set back boot from a local disk or you can use the SETBOOT command procedure (maybe in SYS$MANAGER or SYS$UPDATE) which should help you in changing EFI setting quite easily... Let me know! G.

16 years, 2 months

Itanium install media

by gerry77＠mail.com

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:57:25 +0100, you wrote: You seemed to know a bit about the integrity boxes, I've just got an rx2600, but have NO idea what to do next. I've hooked up the management processor to a DHCP-serving LAN, but it's not picking up an IP address. Any idea how to reset it to factory defaults? I've seen on comp.os.vms that you've managed to resolve your problems and I'm glad about that because I do not know anything about Itanium hardware: I'm an Italian DECnet group member, that's true, and we do have an Itanium system on our network, but... That system is in Rome and I'm in Bologna (about 500 km north of Rome), so I've never put my hands on it! :-P If I remember correctly you'll have to fiddle with EFI menus to start a PXE network boot (a combination of bootp and tftp) and then using InfoServer you should be able to start OpenVMS 8.x installation, then you'll have to fiddle again with EFI to set back boot from a local disk or you can use the SETBOOT command procedure (maybe in SYS$MANAGER or SYS$UPDATE) which should help you in changing EFI setting quite easily... Let me know! G.

16 years, 2 months

DECnet on KLH10

by Paul_Koning＠dell.com

"Zane" == Zane H Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> writes: Zane> Stupid question, is it possible the SET HOST is connecting via Zane> LAT rather than DECnet? I wouldn't think so. paul

16 years, 2 months

Itanium install media

by sampsa＠mac.com

Gerry, You seemed to know a bit about the integrity boxes, I've just got an rx2600, but have NO idea what to do next. I've hooked up the management processor to a DHCP-serving LAN, but it's not picking up an IP address. Any idea how to reset it to factory defaults? Sampsa On 15 Sep 2008, at 01:25, gerry77 at mail.com wrote: On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:17:06 +0100, you wrote: Anyone know where I could borrow this, I'm picking up an rx2600 tomorrow? There are two somewhat "secret" URLs from which you can download BACKUP/IMAGE copies of the original installation DVDs for V8.3 and V8.3-1H1. The most curious thing is that they're directly from HP, obviously not as an official distribution, but maybe to informally spread new Itanium releases among Hobbyists. Anyway, no one really knows why those files are there, so it's better to keep their URLs reserved and not so publicly available. ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/openvms/private/I640831H1.BCK-GZ (1.8GB) ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/openvms/private/I64083.BCK-GZ (1.6GB) They were made with BACKUP/IMAGE (and not BACKUP/PHYSICAL), so they're not directly bootable from EFI because they lack the FAT partition which is present in the original DVD outside the ODS-2 volume. The easiest way to boot and install from those images is to use an Alpha system with OpenVMS V8.3 to serve them using the new InfoServer function. You'll need GZIP too. http://docs.hp.com/en/BA322-90077/apb.html We [1] used the InfoServer method and were up'n'running in a matter of minutes. If you'll need further assistance (except on EFI) I'm here! :-) If someone else offers you off-list something like Layered Products for OpenVMS on Itanium, we'll be very grateful if you'll share with us! :-) HTH, G. [1] http://decnet.ipv7.net

16 years, 2 months

Itanium install media

by gerry77＠mail.com

On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:17:06 +0100, you wrote: Anyone know where I could borrow this, I'm picking up an rx2600 tomorrow? There are two somewhat "secret" URLs from which you can download BACKUP/IMAGE copies of the original installation DVDs for V8.3 and V8.3-1H1. The most curious thing is that they're directly from HP, obviously not as an official distribution, but maybe to informally spread new Itanium releases among Hobbyists. Anyway, no one really knows why those files are there, so it's better to keep their URLs reserved and not so publicly available. ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/openvms/private/I640831H1.BCK-GZ (1.8GB) ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/openvms/private/I64083.BCK-GZ (1.6GB) They were made with BACKUP/IMAGE (and not BACKUP/PHYSICAL), so they're not directly bootable from EFI because they lack the FAT partition which is present in the original DVD outside the ODS-2 volume. The easiest way to boot and install from those images is to use an Alpha system with OpenVMS V8.3 to serve them using the new InfoServer function. You'll need GZIP too. http://docs.hp.com/en/BA322-90077/apb.html We [1] used the InfoServer method and were up'n'running in a matter of minutes. If you'll need further assistance (except on EFI) I'm here! :-) If someone else offers you off-list something like Layered Products for OpenVMS on Itanium, we'll be very grateful if you'll share with us! :-) HTH, G. [1] http://decnet.ipv7.net

16 years, 2 months

Itanium install media

by sampsa＠mac.com

Anyone know where I could borrow this, I'm picking up an rx2600 tomorrow? Sampsa

16 years, 2 months

GORVAX MULTINET tunnel and CHIMPY's bridge are moving IPs soon

by bob＠jfcl.com

- GORVAX's MULTINET tunnel has been moved to 78.86.123.31, port 700/UDP Ok, I made this change. Bob

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