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<div>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.</div>
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<div>I still have a problem, but see my next e-mail for details.</div>
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<div>Peter Allan<br><br></div>
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<div class="h5">On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Jarratt RMA<br><<a href="mailto:robert.jarratt@ntlworld.com">robert.jarratt@ntlworld.com</a>> wrote:<br>> If you are working from the same media I have, then I think the 4.6 media<br>
> are an upgrade only and you will need to install an earlier version first. I<br>> think I installed 4.0 first.<br>><br>> Regards<br>><br>> Rob<br>><br>> On 27 December 2010 12:30, Peter Allan <<a href="mailto:petermallan@googlemail.com">petermallan@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>>> I have managed to get hold of some versions of VMS, mostly VMS 4.X and I<br>>> am trying to install VMS4.6 on an emulated 780 using simh.<br>>><br>>> The sequence I have followed is:<br>
>><br>>> Boot using the VMS 7.3 CD<br>>><br>>> Run BACKUP to copy the REQUIRED saveset from the VMS 4.6 emulated tape to<br>>> an RA81 disk with the command<br>>> BACKUP/VERIFY MTA0:REQUIRED/SAVE DUA0:<br>
>><br>>> However, when I boot from the RA81, expecting the installation sequence to<br>>> continue, I get<br>>><br>>> VAX/VMS Version KG 15-Jun-1987 10:00<br>>><br>>><br>>> **** FATAL BUG CHECK, VERSION = KG INVEXCEPTN, Exception while above<br>
>> ASTDEL or on interrupt stack<br>>><br>>> CURRENT PROCESS = SWAPPER<br>>><br>>> REGISTER DUMP<br>>><br>>> R0 = 00000008<br>>> R1 = 04080000<br>>> R2 = 00000000<br>
>> R3 = 00000000<br>>> R4 = 80002748<br>>> R5 = 00000000<br>>> R6 = 00000000<br>>> R7 = 00000000<br>>> R8 = 00000000<br>>> R9 = 00000000<br>
>> R10= 00000000<br>>> R11= 00000000<br>>> AP = 00000000<br>>> FP = 00000000<br>>> SP = 801F91D0<br>>> PC = 80004862<br>>> PSL= 04080009<br>
>><br>>> KERNEL/INTERRUPT STACK<br>>><br>>> 801F91D8 00000004<br>>> 801F91DC 00000000<br>>> 801F91E0 FFFFFFFD<br>>> 801F91E4 00000000<br>>> 801F91E8 00000000<br>
>> 801F91EC 00000001<br>>> 801F91F0 00000003<br>>> 801F91F4 00000454<br>>> 801F91F8 8000A71B<br>>> 801F91FC 04080000<br>>><br>>> Reboot requested, PC: 80158B91 (HALT)<br>
>><br>>><br>>> Has anyone any idea what is going wrong?<br>>><br>>> I successfully installed VMS 7.3 from the CD on the 780. Experiments give<br>>> a similar crash when running VMS 7.3 if I have too little memory on the 780<br>
>> (less than 32MB), but no fiddling with the amount of memory seems to help<br>>> with VMS 4.6.<br>>><br>>> I think someone out there has VMS 4.6 running, so I trust it is possible<br>>> and I am doing something silly.<br>
>><br>>> Peter Allan<br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> Simh mailing list<br>>> <a href="mailto:Simh@trailing-edge.com">Simh@trailing-edge.com</a><br>>> <a href="http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh" target="_blank">http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh</a><br>
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><br><br></div></div>Hello!<br>I believe both 4.5 (If that version did exist, I can't remember.) and<br>4.6 are indeed upgrades, and that 4.0 is the logical way to start. And<br>no I do not know when the firm started its hobbyist program. It has<br>
been a big bone of contention regarding when that happened, not why it<br>did, and what release it was wrapped around.<br><br>-----<br>Gregg C Levine <a href="mailto:gregg.drwho8@gmail.com">gregg.drwho8@gmail.com</a><br>"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."<br>
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