[Info-vax] Making a VMS 4.0 Install Tape

[Robert Jarratt]

I have the backup savesets for VMS 4.0 on disk. I have tried doing a 
BACKUP/IMAGE to a spare disk and booting from that, but it does not boot, I 
think this may be because the disk is SCSI and I am not sure which is the 
first VMS version to support SCSI.

The reason I am doing this is to try to get a 4.0 system disk on my 3100 
Model 80 which I can then use to MOP boot my MicroVAX II. However since I 
cannot get 4.0 onto my 3100, and I cannot put the MicroVAX II disk in my 
3100, but I do have a TK50, I would like to try to create a bootable tape to 
install VMS 4.0 directly on the MicroVAX II.

I am aware that the procedure to make such a tape might be to use STABACKIT, 
but as I can only run VMS7.3 and I am having trouble getting a 7.3 
standalone backup to boot on my MicroVAX II I need to do this manually 
because I have no running version of VMS 4.0. I also tried using STABACKIT 
with p3 (source device and directory) pointing at where I have restored the 
first saveset of VMS 4.0 in the vain hope that this might build me a 4.0 
standalone backup, but it reckoned it could not find SYS.EXE in 
[SYS0.SYS$LDR] in the source, although I found it in [SYS0.SYSEXE].

Can anyone advise how I can manually create a bootable install tape for 4.0 
using the savesets I have?

Thanks

Rob