Just a warning that I've been nailed by having the Dummy class LP in NMMGR
rather than SYSGEN.  I got stuck on a reboot step in the middle of an
upgrade some years ago.  NMCONFIG wasn't yet converted and therefore wasn't
recognized.  Hence no LP, no printers at all & therefore, I couldn't STREAM
a job necessary to complete the install.  After the expected beads of sweat
on the brow, I got things going somehow but I can't recall at this point how
I did it.

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Lars Appel [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
                Sent:   Saturday, September 05, 1998 5:55 AM
                To:     [log in to unmask]
                Subject:        Re: sysgen question

                At 16:20 04.09.98 -0700, Steve wrote:
                >You shouldn't have to do anything in :SYSGEN to configure
"fake" printer
                >devices. Just go into :NMMGR and create a fraudulent DTC
(probably a 48 or a
                >72 so you have lots of ports), fill it up with 8-port
phantom cards if it's
                >a 48, and assign those ultralightweight ports the LDEV
numbers you want to
                >use.

                Using a dummy DTC in NMMGR instead of dummy printers in
SYSGEN should also
                have the very nice side effect of shortening your START
NORECOVERY time as
                the I/O configuration phase will not have to wait (until
timeout) for some
                response from the non-existent devices...

                Lars.