[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.

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.

   Yes, but this causes no actual problem with either the
installation or normal operation.  The disk corruption occurs
when a crash dump corrupts the disk.

   One might argue that "the problem" is the installation of
critical (dump) files in unfortunate places, and that this may
occur during installation, but this is only one interpretation
of "the problem", which is why I posed the question I did,
namely, "Which problem occurs where when?".