[Info-vax] Installing OpenVMS 8.4 on Integrity rx2800 with no local disks

[John E. Malmberg]

On 1/30/2015 2:51 AM, Eberhard Heuser wrote:
> Am 29.01.2015 um 21:36 schrieb Tom Wade via Info-vax:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have to install OpenVMS 8.4 on an Integrity rx2800 i2.  It has no
>> local disks, only SAN storage.  From what I can see, this system
>> cannot boot from the DVD due to lack of support for the SATA DVD drive
>> in the base O/S.
<snip>
>> I have access to an rx2600 (currently running 8.3).  I was considering
>> using this machine to install 8.4 with patch UPDATE5 on a USB stick,
>> and trying to boot that on the target machine.  Is this feasible ?
>>
>
> The DVD drive in a RX2800 is connected through a ICH10-controller.
>
> This controller is supported by the OpenVMS remastered DVD as a
> SCSI-drive without using any additional patches.

Have you considered installing the info-server software on one or more 
of your Alpha/Itanium systems?

http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/285

Then you can just network install.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network