[Info-vax] installing vms 7.3

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In article <4cce1d00$0$17471$c3e8da3$b280bf18 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>Edwin Rhodes wrote:
>> hello i have a cdrom that is supposed to have vms vax 7.3 install on 
>> it, i boot the cd and it boots up to a prompt stating "BACKUP"
>> there is no usual install menu, please help i would like to install vms 
>> 7.3 vax. i have all the genuine license keys just cant get install 
>> media to work, please advise, thanks ed.
>
>
>You need to issue a backup command to load a minimal VMS (the "A"
>saveset) onto the disk, after which you boot from the disk and it
>completes the installation.
>
>BACKUP/IMAGE/NOALIAS device:VAXVMS073.A/save  disk:/INIT
>
>once this is done, you boot from the disk, and follow the prompts.

That would be the .B saveset.

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