VMS 5.5x

Comments

• techfury

  March 2020

  The 5.5-2H4 CD image worked just fine on 3 physical VAXen I have.
• rliegh

  September 2023

  I was able to get VMS 5.5-2H4 to install onto simh from the iso here. I copied the iso file into the current directory and disabled most things to keep things simple. I know next to nothing about vms but I was able to figure it out -the hardest part was figuring out the name of the save_set to restore from. Here's the simh ini file I used:
  
  #---install.ini:
  set ts dis
  set tq dis
  set rl dis
  att nvr nvr.ram
  cpu 64m
  set cpu idle=vms
  set rq0 ena
  set rq0 ra92
  set rq1 ena
  set rq1 cdrom
  set xq ena
  att rq0 rq0-ra92.dsk
  att rq1 "VMS 552h4 VAX.iso"
  att xq nat:
  boot
  
  #The save_state file on cd is: VMS2H4055.B
  #restore it with:
  #BACKUP/IMAGE/VERIFY DUA1:VMS2H4055.B/SAVE_SET DUA0:
  #As per section 3.3 of http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/vax/vms/5.5/AA-NG61D-TE_VMS_5.5_Upgrade_and_Installation_Nov1991.pdf
  
• flexmcmurphy

  December 25

  The above may give mixed results depending on what SIMH version you are using.
  
  With SIMH v4.0-0 (Mark Pizzolato) you might get the device name: DJA1 for the ISO file.
  
  If you disable AUTOSIZE then you will get DUA1 as the device name:
  set rq1 cdrom
  set rq1 NOAUTOSIZE
  attach rq1 -r openvms_v5.5-4h2.iso
  
  If you use Open SIMH v4.1-0 you will probably just get DUA1 as the device name and not have to disable AUTOSIZZE at all.