[Info-vax] Modern VMS (e.g. V8.4) tape installation?

[Steven Schweda]

   So far as I know, VMS installation from tape never made it
off VAX.  With the easy availability of CD-ROM drives, why
would anyone have put any engineering effort into booting an
Alpha from tape?

   Apparently, DEC/Compaq stopped testing even _VAX_
installation from tape around V7.2, because they broke it
there.  I still have a modified VMS072.B kit lying around
which doesn't do this:

[...]
* Enter name of drive holding the DECnet-Plus kit: mua0:
%SYSTEM-F-IVLOGNAM, invalid logical name

********************************************************************************

    Installation of OpenVMS VAX V7.2 incomplete.

    Error - exiting from Mandatory Update phase procedure.
    Restart this phase by rebooting the system.
[...]

   Ah, the good old days.  (Probably can't blame the Indians
for that one.)