[Info-vax] Backup TK50 tapes

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <kgbrs3$pll$1 at dont-email.me>,
	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> supervinx wrote:
>> Well, let's see again what I've understood...
>> 1) Bootable VMS installation tapes cannot be duplicated easily.
>> 2) Once extracted all the savesets (and the binaries) a bootable tape needs 
>> to be reconstructed by hand. Physically or virtually.
>> 3) A bootable tape boots with a subset of VMS which will restore the savesets.
>> 3) If I want a physical tape copy I need a SCSI tape unit and another OS, 
>> along with tapecopy/tapedd.
>> 
>> So, my idea to boot simh from 5.5 tape images and install VMS is a bit
>> hard to realize...
>> 
>> 
> 
> No.  It's not.

5.5 is available on CDROM.

bill


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