[Info-vax] OpenVMS Alpha V8.4 install from InfoServer-1000

[Paul Sture]

In article <00AC97CD.3C475993 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
 VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> In article <nospam-36E951.14053827102012 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture 
> <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> >In article <00AC9738.777E5C1F at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
> > VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> >> 
> >> Files, in the promirdial bootstrap, are supposed to be contiguous.  That
> >> seems to be the only reason that this CD media will not boot VMS and all
> >> of the other media does.
> >
> >A BACKUP/IMAGE to a new image _should_ cure that.
> 
> Assuming it is that, yes, I can do that to a virtual disk and then remaster
> the CD.  I shouldn't have to but if that's the only way to get this upgrade
> completed, then I will have to do burn a CD.

Ah, I was thinking that the aim here was to land the image on an 
InfoServer.

I could have a poke around the V8.4 image that came with the Hobbyist 
distribution but I don't know whether that is an exact replica of the 
official distribution.  It is possible that BACKUP/IMAGE was used 
somewhere in the process of distributing it.

-- 
Paul Sture