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The Question is: I am Trying to install VMS 7.1 on an Alpha PW 433a (upgrading the HW from an alphastation 250). This was previously an NT machine and currently has a corrupt install of NT on it. I have booted to the SRC console and inserted the VMS 7.1 binaries CD and typed the following command boot -flags 0.0 dqa0 (where dqa0 is the name of the cd rom) The disk is recognised as a bootable disk but part way through the installation I get the following message... %SYSBOOT-E-LDFAIL, Failed to load execlet, status = 001380AC halted cpu 0 halt code = 5 HALT instruction executed PC = 193c4 ... The current PAL code on the machine is VMS PALcode V1.18, OSF PALcode V1.21-13 I am new to the VMS OS and haven't done an installation like this before, where am I going wrong? (file system I assume is ntfs but can't confirm). We are a current CSA Subscriber and I have the Sept. 99 SDK. But I can't boot to any of the CD's included with the SDK, only our binaries cd. Help Me Please, Thanks, Kyle Lund Hyprotech Ltd. The Answer is : OpenVMS is not supported on the Personal Workstation "-a" series. The PWS-a series was intended for and is supported only with Microsoft Windows NT, while the PWS-au series systems are generally supported with OpenVMS, Tru64 UNIX, and Windows NT. The first release of OpenVMS Alpha that has support for the Personal Workstation "-au" series is V7.1-1H1 or V7.1-1H2 (depending on the configuration), and OpenVMS Alpha V7.1-2 or later is recommended. An upgrade package from the PWS-a to PWS-au is/was offered.
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