[Info-vax] Boot rx2600 off USB DVD?

[John H. Reinhardt]

On Apr 20, 1:23 am, glen herrmannsfeldt <g... at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinha... 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

No, a MV3100 won't be much use in making a DVD from that .BCK file
directly.  If you had the space you could still unpack the backup and
then move the container file to another system.  That's what I
initially did.  But you do need about 2.5GB of space for the container
file.

  Since the V8.3-1H1 one works you don't really need the V8.3 anyway.

  The DVD is the Operating Environment DVD.  No compilers, no layered
products.  Just what HP considers required for setting up the O/S.
The layered products comes on another DVD.  And you're right, there is
just enough room on a 4.7GB DVD for both but they don't do that.

  John H. Reinhardt