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In article <1992Aug18.154708.21277@ncsu.edu>, ms@ncsu.edu (Mark Stubbs) writes:
>
>Hello,
>
>We have recently acquired a VAX 11/730 with RL02 and RA80 disk drives,
>and a TU58 tape drive.  What we need to know is this:  
>
>    - How can you install ULTRIX on this beast,  given the only
>      seemingly usefull installation media is the ethernet.

The supported kit media for the 11/730 (as of ULTRIX V2.3) were RA60
and 9 track tape.  If you really have an RA80, as opposed to R80,
then the RA60 may be a possibility.  Otherwise you'll need a UNIBUS
tape drive.

I'm pretty sure that ULTRIX V2.3 was the last version to support the
11/730.  There's a chance the machine specific code for the 11/730
is still lurking around V3.0 and maybe even V4, but the further you
get away from a supported the more likely it is that something has
been broken.

>
>    - Are there any bootstraps on TU58 tape for doing a kind of network
>      boot? (IE Attempt to configure it as a diskless machine at first?)

I doubt it.  I'm not sure you can use the DEUNA for downline loading.
Even if you get it send out the right MOP message, you'll need to verify
that the generic kernel that gets loaded over the net has support for
the 11/730 in it.  A quick check of the V4.2 GENERIC configuration shows
no mention of the 11/730 nor the IDC.
>
>Any help or experience with these machine will be greatly appreciated.

Find someone with a V2.3 kit with TU58s for boot media.  Good luck.
If you can get a tape drive or RA60 (and it really does have a UDA50)
you should be able to do the installation directly.  If not, find
another VAX on which to do the installation and keep the generic
kernel around.

Supported tape drives (load) for the 11/730 running V2.3 were:

TS11, TU80, TU81, TU81E.

The tape drives supported as data devices only were:

TS05 and TUK50.

Make sure you have at least 4 MB of memory. 
>
>
>Mark Stubbs
>ms@unity.ncsu.edu
>
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