[Info-vax] Boot rx2600 off USB DVD?

[John H. Reinhardt]

On Apr 19, 7:04 am, glen herrmannsfeldt <g... at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> eortheain <fredrik.ny... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > OpenVMS/Integrity 8.3-1H1 (and probably 8.3 and 8.2) support
> > installation over the network, but if I'm reading the manual right,
> > you need to have another OpenVMS/Integrity box with Infoserver and the
> > OpenVMS DVD (or image of it) as a boot server.
>
> I still wonder what to do with a .BCK file.
>
> So, the TFTP boot is for systems like Linux that know what
> to do with TFTP?  
>
> -- glen

If that is the .BCK file acquired over the internet, then it is an
image backup which you would have to restore to an appropriately sized
LD device.  You can then take the LD device's container file and write
it to a DVD and with any luck it will boot on an IA64 system.  Hoffman
Labs has several pages with useful information.  The most helpful is
http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/28 - LabsNotes: Recording CD and DVD
Media on OpenVMS

  John H. Reinhardt