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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: VAX 11/750 and InfoServer 100
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.200604.970@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 20:06:04 PST
- References: <15DEC199211021097@loyola.edu>
- Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA
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- In article <15DEC199211021097@loyola.edu>, cmelaro@loyola.edu (Chris Melaro) writes:
- > We have just recently recieved a 11/750 with no documentation. I would
- > like to be able to boot it from our InfoServer in order to upgrade to a newer
- > version of VMS.
- >
- > I know that on our VAX 6310, we are able to do this with a command
- > similar to:
- > BOOT/XMI:A/R5:E0000100 EXA0
- >
- > If anyone out there knows how to do the equivalent on a 11/750, or has any
- > advice, it would be greatly appreciated.
-
- Sorry, no can do. You can boot it from a disk on an HSC (connected via CI
- adapter), or from a local disk. But the boot ROMs in the 750 (and the 730 and
- 780 as well) do not know how to boot from an Ethernet controller.
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
- drivers, internals, networks, applications, and training for VMS and Windows-NT
- uucp 'g' protocol guru and release coordinator, VMSnet (DECUS uucp) W.G., and
- Chair, Programming and Internals Working Group, U.S. DECUS VMS Systems SIG
- Internet: jeh@cmkrnl.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com
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