[Info-vax] Good/best version of (Open)VMS for a VAXstation 2000?

[Mike K.]

On May 31, 8:59 am, Hans Vlems <hvl... at freenet.de> wrote:

> So if you have a CD with VMS 4.7 on it then you'd also need VMS 4.6 to
> make this work.
> The  VS2000 has no CDrom drive capability. The procedure to get VMS
> installed is very timeconsuming,
> then again if you want to run a VS2000 then this shouldn't bother
> you ;-).
> Booting Standalone Backup off a TK50 requires more patience than I
> have. My procedure is:
> - boot the VS2000 as a satellite in a cluster
> - install SAB on DUA0/DUA1 (@sys$update:stabackit)
>    if you have the luxury of two disks, put SAB on the disk that won't
> become systemdisk
> - copy the savesets to a TK50 cartridge
>   Note 1 = use one TK50 for each VMS version
>   Note 2 = put the savesets for the major release in the correct order
> (not the same as alphabetical order!)
> - Boot SAB on the VS2000
> - backup/image REQUIRED. to the target systemdisk
> - Boot from that disk and follow instructions.
> All this is from memory (what's left of it) so take care!
> Hans
Would SAB fit onto an RX33 disk? If so, that would be an easy way to
get things going...

Mike