[Info-vax] Boot rx2600 off USB DVD?

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote:
(snip, I wrote)
 
>>  Is it hard to make bootable DVDs?
 
>   Don't you have one?  As I asked, from what are you booting,
> if not a bootable DVD?

I didn't boot of it, I had EFI run the install program on
the mounted file system.  

>   Booting a Linux DVD is not substantially different.  I just
> installed Debian from a home-made DVD on my rx2600.  See, for
> example:
 
>      http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ia64/ch05s01.html.en#bootable-cd
 
> Everything starts from "Boot Maintenance Menu" or "EFI Shell
> [Built-in]".

I may try that.  I have two 18GB SCA drives.  Though it did
occur to me that I might need more space for a swap file.
It does have 10GB of real memory.
 
>> Has anyone installed through the net?
 
>   I wouldn't bet that VMS could be done that way.

Oh well.

-- glen