[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist licence - howto

[Steven Schweda]

Michael Kraemer wrote:

> This doesn't seem to be the complete explanation.
> As the other poster has pointed out,
> the problem already occurs at boot/installation time,
> not just during a crash dump.

   Which problem occurs where when?  There's no problem
installing VMS on a disk bigger than 1GB, but a crash dump can
corrupt the data if the crash dump region was supposed to be
past the 1GB point, because the firmware can't write out
there, but it _will_ write somewhere.

>  I did not observe
> a similar problem when installing Ultrix 4.5.
> And I did not manage to crash my Ultrix/VAX systems yet.
> Moreover, IIRC Ultrix lets you allocate the crash dump area
> wherever you like, and if this is within the first 1GB,
> one should be on the safe side, no?

   I know little about Ultrix (and care even less), but the
safe side sounds to me like the place to be.