[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist licence - howto

[Bob Eager]

On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:18:28 -0500, JF Mezei wrote:

> Steven Schweda wrote:
> 
>>    Which problem occurs where when?  There's no problem
>> installing VMS on a disk bigger than 1GB,
> 
> The problem is that the first step of a clesn install is to use
> standalone backup to move saveset B to the boot drive. Standalone backup
> does not give you any flexibility on how it initialises the drive (for
> instance, whether the critical structures are placed at the beginning,
> middle or end of the disk).
> 
> If the default is to place the structures at the middle of the drive,
> and you have a 2,5gig drive or larger, this means that the critical
> structures will be placed beyond the 1gb limit.

A workaround might be to boot from the more capable VMS root on the CD, 
which lets you use INITIALIZE and real BACKUP, perhaps.



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