[Info-vax] Undo Autogen on VMS 7.3

Mike Rechtman mike at rechtman.com
Wed Nov 3 13:33:58 EDT 2010


On 02/11/10 01:57, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> On 11/1/2010 6:00 PM, Rob Jarratt wrote:
>> I have an old Alpha 433au to which I just added some extra memory. So I
>> did an Autogen, but it looks like there were some problems with the
>> parameters as there were conflicting SCSNODE values etc. I pressed
>> ahead, but would now like to go back to the previous configuration. Is
>> this possible? If so, how do I do it? Note that I have not purged any
>> files in sys$system, so I am wondering if it is just a matter of
>> deleting the most recent SETPARAMS.DAT and rebooting?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Rob
>
> It's too late now but ISTR that there is a way to get AUTOGEN to tell
> you what it thought should be done without actually doing it. Sorry I
> can't be more specific but it has been too many years since I actually
> did it.
Run AUTOGEN from GATPARAMS to TESTFILES, then check AGEN$PARAMS.REPORT (IIRC)

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