[Info-vax] image backup on itanium

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <f1f3c923-9cf4-45cf-acb8-c09265b9e81c at googlegroups.com>, Hans
Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes:

> A couple of weeks ago Brian reported that a system disk created with backup/image was not bootable.
> Yesterday I booted my rx2600 from a v8.4 DVD. The image came from John Egolf's hobbyist repository and was downloaded at least a year ago. Command used:
> $ backup/image dka0: dkb200:
> The image backup of the system disk was *not* bootable.

I don't know about the Itanium stuff, but for ALPHA, one can download an
.ISO file.  As I understand it, this is a bit-for-bit copy of a bootable
disk.  I then used COPY to a hard disk with MOUNT/FOREIGN:

$ COPY/LOG XXX.ISO DKB200:

and booted from that.  No burning, no LD.




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