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From: hamm@WAKS.RUTGERS.EDU.UUCP
Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax
Subject: VAXstar and operating systems
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Date: Wed, 11-Feb-87 16:05:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 11 16:05:00 1987
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Since the VAXstar (VAXstation 2000) will run either VMS or Ultrix with NFS,
would it be possible to:

    1. run a VAXstar as one member of a Local-Area VaxCluster, booting
       from some other node on the Ethernet;  *and*

    2. bring down VMS, boot Ultrix on the same VAXstar, using NFS to
       access disks on some other (Unix) node on the same Ethernet?

I have no idea whether one can actually *boot* Ultrix over the net, but
if not, could one maybe have Ultrix on the (local) disk, and run VMS diskless?

If this were possible, it'd be one answer to the question "Why buy a
VAXstar instead of a SUN?", particularly for those of us caught between
the two operating systems.

Greg Hamm
Rutgers Molecular Biology Computing Lab

hamm@biovax.bitnet
hamm@waks.rutgers.edu

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