[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist licence - howto

[Paul Sture]

In article <00b39128$0$23351$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> 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.

FWIW I just tried restoring VAX V7.3 saveset B to disk and it did put 
the index in the middle.

-- 
Paul Sture