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dtpoirot
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| Posted on August 13 2010 03:04 |
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Howdy all,
I just a few short minutes after 'discovering' FreeAXP I had OpenVMS 8.3 installed. Simply amazing!
I have registered with DECUserve and Connect and am (now) paitently waiting for a full two week cycle to get a 'Hobbyist' license - I missed the Connect transfer by hours.
On to other things...
The thrill of installing was short lived since the network stack is waiting on the license.
Can I load packages such as GNV from a CDROM image? I can use something like CDBurnerXP to master an ISO 9660 image file...
Any ideas?
Thanks,
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malmberg
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| Posted on August 13 2010 13:38 |
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You can use utilities like Magic disk to make a file on the Windows host look like a CD-ROM.
VMS can mount ISO-9660 CD-ROM formats. You will want the file names to be 8.3 format.
DECUServe and Connect are two different paths to getting validated for the Hobby license keys. I do not know which ID will show up at this site first. |
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Bruce Claremont
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| Posted on August 15 2010 13:12 |
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Yes, you can load from CD-ROM, either the real think or an ISO image. ImgBurn http://www.imgburn.com/ is my personal favorite for creating ISO images. |
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smithfarm
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| Posted on August 26 2010 21:20 |
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Follow-up question:
With FreeAXP is it possible to mount a CD-ROM image (not the real thing) "on the fly" or does one have to shut down the system and restart it like with PersonalAlpha?
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malmberg
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| Posted on August 27 2010 02:12 |
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If you use a simulated CD-ROM like Magic Disk, then you can mount CD-ROM images, but not real CD-ROMS.
Because I am running on a VM, I can use the VM management utility to change what the CD-ROM that the VM has loaded.
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Bruce Claremont
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| Posted on August 27 2010 03:47 |
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I would have said no, you cannot change a CD-ROM image once booted. That's a feature on our wish list. However, is sounds like malmberg may have a workaround, and a neat one at that. I take it you just assign the physical CD drive to the Magic ISO virtual drive. This looks like material for the Release Notes. |
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smithfarm
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| Posted on August 27 2010 05:18 |
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Great idea on the simulated CD-ROM and putting it in the Release Notes will definitely help lots of less-informed folks (like me).
I'm trying to avoid putting FreeAXP in a VM since it runs natively on my Vista laptop. However, I sleep-cycle the laptop frequently. If there's no way to stop/start the emulator without rebooting the Alpha (like I can do with SimH/VAX) then a VM is the only solution. I RTFM'd (Release Notes, User's Guide) but found nothing on this.
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Hein
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| Posted on August 30 2010 02:31 |
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smithfarm>> I'm trying to avoid putting FreeAXP in a VM since it runs natively on my Vista laptop. However, I sleep-cycle the laptop frequently. If there's no way to stop/start the emulator without rebooting the Alpha
I use it mostly on an XP-SP2 host which I often put to sleep an wake up again.
For me FreeAXP keeps running after the wakeup, on the console. Nice!
But it does loose the (wirtual) network. Too bad.
I tried both the Microsoft Loopback Adapter and TAP-Win32 Adapter V9
In order to make that network setup work after standby/resume for the host I need to execute: NET STOP MSIPCAP / NET START MSIPCAP
Guess I'll try a system with 2 physical NICs soon, but that will not help my laptop.
Comments? [create my own topic? I'll be happy to, send Email ]
Hein
Hein van den Heuvel
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Bruce Claremont
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| Posted on August 31 2010 16:20 |
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Based on all the interest, we'll add a snooze feature to the FreeAXP wish list. I don't know at this point what the ramifications of such a feature would be. |
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Hein
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| Posted on September 02 2010 04:04 |
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>> Based on all the interest, we'll add a snooze feature to the FreeAXP wish list.
Thanks Bruce, that would be great.
Much nicer if i could just let it keep running.
fwiw, I tried several interfaces MS loopback, TAP adapter, Physical NIC.
No connection comes back until I STOP/START MSIPCAP, for which i have to shutdown the emulator best I can tel..
I'd be happy to to a STOP/START the MSIPCAP before and/or after putting the host system to standby or hibernate, but it tells me it can not stop which the emulator is running
Hein
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