How to install OpenVMS 7.3

Having difficulties when installing the system? Your system runs slowly and requires some tweaking? You can get help here.
Post Reply

Topic author
huntrashmi
Visitor
Posts: 1
Joined: Wed Jul 31, 2024 5:22 am
Reputation: 0
Status: Offline

How to install OpenVMS 7.3

Post by huntrashmi » Wed Jul 31, 2024 10:32 pm

Can anyone please point me at a link to download the documentation CD for OpenVMS 7.3 VAX? I found 7.2 but I would like to have the 7.3 version which I understand was the last release for VAX. Thanks in advance.


reinhardtjh
Valued Contributor
Posts: 67
Joined: Sun Feb 23, 2020 7:49 am
Reputation: 0
Location: Fort Worth, TX USA
Status: Offline

Re: How to install OpenVMS 7.3

Post by reinhardtjh » Wed Jul 31, 2024 10:59 pm

Check at VAXHaven. There is an HP disk that should be V7.3
http://www.vaxhaven.com/CD_Image_Archive
AG-RWPTM-BE VAXDOCDEC07 HP OpenVMS Online Documentation Library for HP OpenVMS VAX and Microsoft Windows Platforms 2007 December
John H. Reinhardt
VMS user since 1981

User avatar

dmjb
Valued Contributor
Posts: 76
Joined: Mon Aug 17, 2020 4:38 pm
Reputation: 0
Status: Offline

Re: How to install OpenVMS 7.3

Post by dmjb » Thu Aug 01, 2024 6:01 am

This is a useful tutorial for installing VMS 7.3 on VAX: https://www.wherry.com/gadgets/retrocom ... -simh.html

It is written with the assumption that you are using SIMH, but it is also applicable to real hardware.


sms
Master
Posts: 427
Joined: Fri Aug 21, 2020 5:18 pm
Reputation: 0
Status: Offline

Re: How to install OpenVMS 7.3

Post by sms » Thu Aug 01, 2024 6:18 pm

Code: Select all

   I realize that there are differences (no ODS5; no SYSMAN, only
SYSGEN; and so on), but for many purposes, I'd expect recent Alpha docs
to be close enough.  Especially if the primary concern is "How to
install".
Last edited by sms on Thu Aug 01, 2024 6:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Post Reply