Greg, The VMS 4.6 tapes do allow you to do an installation from scratch as well as an update as I have just done it.
I still have a problem, but see my next e-mail for details. Peter Allan On 28 December 2010 07:07, Gregg Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Jarratt RMA > <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you are working from the same media I have, then I think the 4.6 media > > are an upgrade only and you will need to install an earlier version > first. I > > think I installed 4.0 first. > > > > Regards > > > > Rob > > > > On 27 December 2010 12:30, Peter Allan <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> I have managed to get hold of some versions of VMS, mostly VMS 4.X and I > >> am trying to install VMS4.6 on an emulated 780 using simh. > >> > >> The sequence I have followed is: > >> > >> Boot using the VMS 7.3 CD > >> > >> Run BACKUP to copy the REQUIRED saveset from the VMS 4.6 emulated tape > to > >> an RA81 disk with the command > >> BACKUP/VERIFY MTA0:REQUIRED/SAVE DUA0: > >> > >> However, when I boot from the RA81, expecting the installation sequence > to > >> continue, I get > >> > >> VAX/VMS Version KG 15-Jun-1987 10:00 > >> > >> > >> **** FATAL BUG CHECK, VERSION = KG INVEXCEPTN, Exception while above > >> ASTDEL or on interrupt stack > >> > >> CURRENT PROCESS = SWAPPER > >> > >> REGISTER DUMP > >> > >> R0 = 00000008 > >> R1 = 04080000 > >> R2 = 00000000 > >> R3 = 00000000 > >> R4 = 80002748 > >> R5 = 00000000 > >> R6 = 00000000 > >> R7 = 00000000 > >> R8 = 00000000 > >> R9 = 00000000 > >> R10= 00000000 > >> R11= 00000000 > >> AP = 00000000 > >> FP = 00000000 > >> SP = 801F91D0 > >> PC = 80004862 > >> PSL= 04080009 > >> > >> KERNEL/INTERRUPT STACK > >> > >> 801F91D8 00000004 > >> 801F91DC 00000000 > >> 801F91E0 FFFFFFFD > >> 801F91E4 00000000 > >> 801F91E8 00000000 > >> 801F91EC 00000001 > >> 801F91F0 00000003 > >> 801F91F4 00000454 > >> 801F91F8 8000A71B > >> 801F91FC 04080000 > >> > >> Reboot requested, PC: 80158B91 (HALT) > >> > >> > >> Has anyone any idea what is going wrong? > >> > >> I successfully installed VMS 7.3 from the CD on the 780. Experiments > give > >> a similar crash when running VMS 7.3 if I have too little memory on the > 780 > >> (less than 32MB), but no fiddling with the amount of memory seems to > help > >> with VMS 4.6. > >> > >> I think someone out there has VMS 4.6 running, so I trust it is possible > >> and I am doing something silly. > >> > >> Peter Allan > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Simh mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Simh mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > > > > Hello! > I believe both 4.5 (If that version did exist, I can't remember.) and > 4.6 are indeed upgrades, and that 4.0 is the logical way to start. And > no I do not know when the firm started its hobbyist program. It has > been a big bone of contention regarding when that happened, not why it > did, and what release it was wrapped around. > > ----- > Gregg C Levine [email protected] > "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." >
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