Yet another old laptop
The number of old laptops to run the Alpha emulator has, again, increased. My niece switched from a Windows-base machine to MacBook – and I could get her old Acer Asipre system – the TFT screen seems dead, not any sign of output, but the virdeo hardware itself is ok, and an external screen does work – with panning, but that doen’t do any harm. It’s a Windows XP Home system but that’s fine for testing purposes. It is in thr porces of being cleaned and upgraded, and when done, I’ll put some PA disks on it. And perhaps other stuff.
One of the new facilities of 8.4 is clustering the VMS systems over IP. And the system named Daphne had to be changed for that. It’s required to have it in a different network, so i had to chnage the IP configuration – to be done anyway since there had been errors from the start. It took some time, but in the end, I succeeded in doing so, but only by using the TCPIP$CONFIG procedure. Changing addresses using TCPIP ifconfig solved the problem momentarily – just in the volatile database. But the persistant data could NOT be changed. At least, I would expect it to be able to change the IP address using TCPIP SET HOST and TCPIP SET CONFIGURATION INTERFACE, but the first failed time aftre time because the host is used as an alias – correct, it is – but removing the alias wan’t possible either, for the same reason.
Moving to a standalone system was no rpoblem either, changing modparams.dat and run Autogen, but I did change the name of cluster_authorize.dat, and a direct reboot from autogen wasn’t executed. Manual reboot did work, though, and after that, I ran cluster_config_Lan to change Daphne to a clusternode, over TCPIP. The next reboot started fine, but since there isn’t a node on the other side, it hung at that point.
I’ll dig into that later.
What goes on behind the doors of the (private) data center