[Info-vax] Boot rx2600 off USB DVD?

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com> wrote:
(snip regarding IA64 VMS installation)
 
> 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

I got two on the net.  The BCK file is 8.3, and the other one
is 8.3-1H1.   I doubt I could create a DVD on my MicroVAX 3100-30,
as its disks aren't that big, and it doesn't have a DVD writer.
Fortunately the other one works.

It seems, though, that there aren't any compilers.  I would have
thought that a DVD would be big enough for a few, but no.

-- glen