Where are AXP install files?
Posted: Thu May 18, 2023 10:09 am
I have Alpha community license, but I need install and iso files. Where are install packages that I can download?
Thanks,
Tim
Thanks,
Tim
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> I have Alpha community license, but I need install and iso files.
> Where are install packages that I can download?
Apparently not on the VSI Service Platform. After the recent
x86-related reorg, I found that I can now choose among different
"Community" organizations, including:
VMS Alpha Community - VAC
VMS Integrity Community - VCI (Internal consistency failure?)
VMS X86 Community - VXC
Only VXC shows any available Packages.
> You should have received details on the initial mail sending you the
> license.
The last relevant e-mail message I can find was:
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:00:06 -0400
Subject: Your new OpenVMS community licenses
[...]
PAKs valid until September 2023
[...]
Get your Integrity license
(https://... )
[...]
Get your Alpha license
(https://... )
[...]
I already had the software (fetched years ago from the now-defunct
FTP server, vsiftp.vmssoftware.com -- I _have_ instructions for _that_),
so I didn't worry about that part of the problem. Now that I've looked,
I realize that I have no idea how a "Community" member is supposed to
fetch any relevant Alpha or IA64 kits.
My VSI e-mail search did find this:
[...] Any problems? Let us know at community@vmssoftware.com,
we're happy to help! [...]
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> BTW, the FTP server "vsiftp.vmssoftware.com" is not defunct, [...]
Ah. Thanks. My error. It's been too long. I was trying to use FTP
instead of SFTP to access "vsiftp.vmssoftware.com". FTP times out.
(Calling it an "FTP" site is not entirely helpful for this reason. One
might argue that a more informative failure would be more helpful, but
running an actual FTP server only to provide an error message and allow
no access might be unattractive.)
> [...] look for a file ALPHA0842L1.ZIP or similar name
I (now, again) see, for example ("sftp> ls -l"):
[...]
-r-------- 1 acommunity 4000 394646016 Jun 9 2022 ALPHA0842L1.ZIP;2
-r-------- 1 acommunity 4000 394766336 Jun 9 2022 ALPHA0842L1.ZIPEXE;2
[...]
Providing both ".ZIP" and ".ZIPEXE" might be seen as a waste of storage
space, but it's not _my_ storage space. The following might generate
some confusion, too:
sftp> ls -l *.hash
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$ sftp accomunity@vsiftp.vmssoftware.com
Unable to negotiate with 216.41.237.161 port 22: no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa
Connection closed
Hi Tim,sword7 wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 8:17 am
$ sftp accomunity@vsiftp.vmssoftware.com
Unable to negotiate with 216.41.237.161 port 22: no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa
Tim
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-oHostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa