MURRAY@WHARTON.UPENN.EDU (08/01/87)
(Sorry if you get this twice; it's being sent to two mailing lists.) We've just gotten DECnet-DOS V1.1 here and have had varying levels of success and failure trying to install it on PC's with differing configurations. Has anybody out there experienced similar problems? Any suggestions (whether from actual experience or educated guesses) will be appreciated. Here's our current situation: - IBM AT, 640K, DOS 3.1, 3Com Ethernet card, color monitor with EGA card, connected to the Ethernet through a DELNI. DECnet-DOS works on this guy. - IBM AT, 640K, DOS 3.1, Micom Ethernet card, color monitor with EGA card, connected to Ethernet through a DELNI. Installation of DECnet-DOS seems to go ok, but the system hangs when we run the DLL (Data Link Layer) process (although it does print some very pretty colored boxes all over the screen first). - HP Vectra (IBM AT clone), 640K, IBM DOS 3.1 (DECnet complained about HP DOS 3.1), 3Com Ethernet card, color monitor with EGA card, connected to HP's version of a DEMPR, which is connected to a DELNI, which is connected to the Ethernet. This one hangs at various random spots during the reboot after the DECnet-DOS installation (DECnet-DOS adds commands to autoexec.bat during installation and it is during the execution of these commands that the system hangs); we get no pretty colored boxes on this one. Any ideas? Thanks a bunch! (INFO-IBMPC people - please respond to me directly as I am not on your list. Thanks.) John Murray Systems Programmer University of Pennsylvania Wharton Computing and Instructional Technology MURRAY@WHARTON-10.ARPA or MURRAY@WHARTON.UPENN.EDU or whatever works for you. P.S. Anybody know of any other mailing list that I might get helpful answers from?
sw0y+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Stephen Wadlow) (08/04/87)
The only help that I can give, is that I have noticed from my (limited) experience with DECnet DOS, that it really wants to run ONLY on an AT or XT. I have no troubles bringing it up on a standard XT, with the 3com ethernet card, but the machines that we want to get it running on are the "new" XT's, with new roms, 640k on the motherboard, and a really obnoxious keyboard, running DOS 3.2. I have talked to my local sales rep, who tells me of a DECnet DOS 1.2 which will cure the DOS 3.2 problems, but no one seems to know if it will cure the problems with the machine itself. Has anyone else run into this? Also: It may just be our crowded DECnet, but many of the task to task functions of DECnet-DOS seem to be very sluggish. How about anyone else? I am very interested in hearing of other people's experience with DECnet DOS. thanks! Steve ====================================================================== Stephen G. Wadlow Internet: Wadlow@A.PSC.EDU Pittsburgh SuperComputing Center Wadlow@MORGUL.PSC.EDU 4400 5th Avenue, Pittsburgh Pa 15213 Bitnet: Wadlow@CPWPSCA.BITnet
JMS@ARIZMIS.BITNET (08/04/87)
MURRAY@wharton-10.arpa writes: > We've just gotten DECnet-DOS V1.1 here and have had varying levels >of success and failure trying to install it on PC's with differing >configurations. Has anybody out there experienced similar problems? Any >suggestions (whether from actual experience or educated guesses) will be >appreciated. Here's our current situation: There is a version of DECnet-DOS V1.1a which solves a lot of the problems we were having getting it to work on newer equipment. In particular, systems with the new XTs and new ATs all require 1.1a. If you call Digital and register your product, you can then ask for the new version of the software, which takes less than a week to come. jms +-------------------------------+ | Joel M Snyder | BITNET: jms@arizmis.BITNET | Univ of Arizona Dep't of MIS | Internet: jms@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu | Tucson, Arizona 85721 | Pseudo-PhoneNET: (602) 621-2748 +-------------------------------+ ICBM: 32 13 N / 110 58 W (I have gotten into trouble too many times to put any faith in disclaimers) "There's nothing here that an overdose of Seconal won't cure."