[Info-vax] Container files are set to grow in importance on the IT road ahead

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
> Jan-Erik Soderholm via Info-vax
> Sent: 03-Feb-16 6:00 PM
> To: info-vax at info-vax.com
> Cc: Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] Container files are set to grow in importance
> on the IT road ahead
> 
> Den 2016-02-03 kl. 21:18, skrev Kerry Main:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
> >> Bob Koehler via Info-vax
> >> Sent: 03-Feb-16 1:19 PM
> >> To: info-vax at info-vax.com
> >> Cc: Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] Container files are set to grow in
> importance
> >> on the IT road ahead
> >>
> >> In article <cbc93d79-178b-4e09-8f3b-
> >> 7d2e91cb755e at googlegroups.com>, IanD
> <iloveopenvms at gmail.com>
> >> writes:
> >>>
> >>> Could VSI perhaps one day distribute VMS + Application 'on a stick'
> so
> >> to s=
> >>> peak?
> >>
> >>     Particularly usefull on OS where the vendor recommends each
> instance
> >>     only support one application.
> >>
> >>     Not necessarily the right solution for all.
> >>
> >
> > Could be very nice solution for distributing pre-configured OS instances
> > such as hobby and/or dev environments i.e. with long list of open
> source
> > and dev prod's + latest patches installed and ready to go.. would only
> need
> > to tweak the OS instance specific info e.g. tcpip, licenses, etc.
> >
> > Many Cust's create "gold" disks or their customized release specific OS
> > images for much faster rollouts. This is also similar to how large
> VMware
> > shops deploy new images. They do not deploy base images of
> Windows
> > or Linux then do patches / custom info. They simply deploy the latest
> gold
> > OS instance image of that particular environment.
> >
> > Case in point - I spent most of a week downloading, installing /
> customizing
> > dev and open source prod's on a new env .. would have been great to
> simply
> > download a single LD file,...
> 
> I think your use of "LD file" is slightly missleading.
> 

Perhaps I should have stated " would have been great to simply 
download a single pre-customized, pre-loaded image file,..."

The work required to research, review, download, & install each of the 
individual pkgs is fairly significant and I took the defaults for each pkg
(after learning my lesson about moving GNV to a non-system disk and
then using delete/tree to cleanup a directory with hard links pointing 
back at the system disk - hint ... get out the backups for the sys disk)

[snip..]

> 
> On my Windows laptop, I can directly use these to "burn" CDs
> of the distributions. And the ALPHA084 CD will be directly
> bootable on my Alpha. There is nothing different from any
> other ISO CD image in that sense, no matter if it has
> a VMS file system on it or not.
> 

Yep - I use the freeware CD freeware burner called CDBurnerXP
and it is great for this exact purpose.

[snip]

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com