Find a working vms system and back up the drives to your externally-attached drive (s) to clone them. Migrate the cloned drives to your system. This is a simplified statement of what's really involved but if you can get to a similar system to your dec whatever you have, I'd attempt the clone process. That is if you have/want to use real vax/alpha hardware. Bill
On Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 9:05 AM Antonio Carlini via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 22/09/2021 13:21, Philip Pemberton via cctalk wrote: > > Hopefully a few of the DEC/VMS fans here might be able to help! > > > > I'm on a bit of a quest. I've been given some old VAX/VMS software -- > > a cross compiler and some source code -- that I'd like to get running. > > My goal is to get the source code building and experiment with the > > compiler a bit. > > > > Problem is that I've never used VMS before, and don't have a clue how > > to install or use it. > > One of the other replies supplies a "how to install from scratch in > SIMH" link, so that would be a good starting point. > > Might be faster to install on a speedy machine though (I've never tried > on any Pi but I doubt that any of them will match a Ryzen ...) > > > > Can any point me to an idiot's guide to VMS, how to set it up and make > > it possible to send files to it from my Linux box? > > > The easiest way to transfer that I can think of would be to set up > TCP/IP on OpenVMS and then just FTP (or NFS if you you set that up). > > There is (or at least, was) a version of SAMBA for OpenVMS, so that's > another way if you like Windows. > > > > I'm thinking of using SIMH, unless there's a better emulator available. > > SIMH works really well. Well enough that if you give OpenVMS (VAX) a > sufficiently large disk (30GB should do), it will crash when trying to > mount it :-) > > > > > > I'm still waiting on a reply from HP with a hobbyist licence PAK (I've > > filled out the form), but I figure I can get started on the learning > > while I wait. > > > You'll be a wizard before you stop waiting. Hobbyist PAKs are no longer > available. I forget whether the existing PAKs run out at the end of 2021 > or 2022. > > VSI are not allowed to issue PAKs for VAX (I'm not sure whether they > simply cannot do it or are not allowed to do it, but either way, they > won't). > > > Antonio > > > -- > Antonio Carlini > anto...@acarlini.com > >