[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist licence - howto

[Michael Kraemer]

JF Mezei schrieb:
> 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.

And this is the point where the OS *does* make a difference.
Ultrix by default places the root partition at low block numbers.
With custom partitioning one can as well account for the 1GB limit
as far as root partition and dump file are concerned.
No extra tricks needed here.