Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!lll-lcc!mordor!lll-tis!ames!sdcsvax!nosc!humu!uhmanoa!uhccux!todd From: todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: DEC maintenance on 86XX requires VMS? Message-ID: <689@uhccux.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 05:01:12 EDT Article-I.D.: uhccux.689 Posted: Thu Jul 16 05:01:12 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 06:34:03 EDT References: <1805@megaron.arizona.edu> <1364@decuac.DEC.COM> Reply-To: todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz) Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu) Lines: 28 Xref: mnetor comp.unix.wizards:3266 comp.sys.dec:281 In article <1364@decuac.DEC.COM> avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) writes: >In article <1805@megaron.arizona.edu> whm@arizona.edu (Bill Mitchell) writes: >>We've got an 8600 maintained by DEC that we run 4.3BSD UNIX on. The system >>has a UDA50+RA60 (removable pack) on it; DEC required that we purchase this >>so that they could boot VMS on it if need be. >Hmmm. Strange. You *could* run Ultrix. Field Service only needs to >be able to boot the Diagnostics and you can do that from VMS or >Ultrix. But it seems to me some, if not all of them are bootable off >of tape or even the boot media (rl02 pack). Just to confirm what Fred Avolio wrote. I ran a VAX 8650 running Ultrix 1.2 on it for a while and the DEC field engineers simply swapped the RL02 pack whenever they needed to run diagnostics. No muss, no fuss. Seemed to work pretty well... ...todd -- Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii Center for Teaching Excellence UUCP: {ihnp4,seismo,ucbvax,dcdwest}!sdcsvax!nosc!uhccux!todd ARPA: uhccux!todd@nosc.MIL INTERNET: todd@uhccux.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU