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Subject: Re: VAX 730 standalone boot, and a PDP-8 question...
Message-ID: <1990Nov5.154610.41918@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 5 Nov 90 21:46:10 GMT
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In article <35548@cup.portal.com>, Azog-Thoth@cup.portal.com (William Thomas Daugustine) writes:
> How does one go about doing the standalone boot in the VAX 730? Ive already
> done SYS$UPDATE:STABACKIT.COM (or whatever) to build the kit on the RL02,
> and now I want to boot it. Ive looked at the stuff on the console tape
> (at the >>> typed DIR) and didnt see anything really obvious (to me).
> Someone once told me that it was B STA, but there is no STABOO.CMD
> on the tape... or perhaps my console tape is incomplete?

>>> B DQx

where 'x' the number of the drive. Your console media has to have DQxBOO.CMD,
of course. You can copy DQxBOO.CMD to STABOO.CMD if you really want to do
B STA.
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