Thanks David and Reindert. I managed to get PCSA server and client V4.1
running using this route.
Now, I have a VAX with all the supporting software, and a VAXmate
connected to my LAN using (!) thinwire, and after startup the VAXmate
begs for a downline load that I can see coming in to my PCSAPI node (29.211)
All the PCSA client docs point to client setup starting with a floppy
boot and using NETSETUP on DOS. There are relevant flopyy /images/
available on the 'net, but this VAXmate is unimaginative, so to speak.
It needs a real floppy.
Or is there a way to construct a downline load image for VAXmate on the
server side? The docs do not specify this
*Wilm*
David Moylan schreef op 20-10-2020 om 02:54:
I think I've managed to hunt this down.
I'll show you how I got there, because it's a useful path.
I first went to Martin's ConDist CD list:
http://de.openvms.org/martinv/VMS_CD_KITS.html
and looked for "PCSA" and found two 041 releases. These are on the CDBIN04SEP2
and CDBIN10NOV2 distributions respectively.
I then went searching for these two distributions and got a hit on an archived HECnet
post on hecnet.eu from 2013 by Mark Wickens.
It says the CDBIN10NOV2 is available on SLAVE:: (which appears not to be online), but
also gives an http link to the associated archive.
http://hecnet.eu/archive/VAX_MEDIA/1992_nov_cdbin10nov2/
and so I searched through the directories and found:
http://hecnet.eu/archive/VAX_MEDIA/1992_nov_cdbin10nov2/cdbin10nov27/pcsa04…
http://hecnet.eu/archive/VAX_MEDIA/1992_nov_cdbin10nov2/cdbin10nov27/pcsau1…
I hope that's what you were looking for :-)
Cheers, Wiz!!
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> Subject: [HECnet] Pathworks for VMS V4.1 kit anywhere ?
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I have become the proud owner of a VAXmate workstation, with a disk
> enclosure pizzabox attached.
>
> It is working in that it attempts to boot from disk (which fails), and
> then boots from the network, and I see a load request coming in on my VAX.
>
> Now I am looking for the supporting software.
>
> It looks like Pathworks V4.1 could be of use. I have tracked a kit
> PCSACLIENT041 (.A and .B), but it requires the PCSA041 server kit, of
> which, oddly enough, I do have .B but not .A
>
> Is the PCSA041 kit available on HECnet somewhere ?
>
>
> *Wilm*
>