[Info-vax] vmstailor

[Steven Schweda]

> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/83final/6524/6524pro.html#major_preinstall_tasks

   Did you notice that that document covers "Operating
Systems: OpenVMS I64 Version 8.2-1 OpenVMS I64 Version 8.3
OpenVMS Alpha Version 8.2 OpenVMS Alpha Version 8.3", not any
VAX version?

> product extract file, now is that from the openvms iso?

   No, that's from the PCSI product kit, "*.PCSI*".  Which I
assume you don't have.

   I don't know what you already have, and I don't know
what's on a recent Hobbyist VAX CD image.  What I have on a
March 2003 Software Products Library CD-ROM set is a choice
between "Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Version 5.3" in
the [UCX053] directory, and an older one, "DIGITAL TCP/IP
Services for OpenVMS Version 4.2" in the [UCX042] directory. 
My notes suggest that my latest VAX stuff would be VMS V7.3
with TCPIP V5.3 - ECO 4, so I'd guess that you're looking for
files named "*UCX053*.*" (or similar), and I'd expect that
kit to be (somewhere) on the VMS kit CD.

   Otherwise, the e-mail message with the PAKs should have
included an invitation to send an e-mail request to the
fellow who can supply the credentials needed for [S]FTP/HTTPS
access to the product kits.

> §1.2.1 says "distribution kit" and SPL. Dunno if they're
> the same.

   The Software Products Library is/was a CD-ROM (later,
DVD-ROM) set, which included many product kits.  A product
kit is the set of files needed to install a product,
typically including relevant documentation.  This could be a
.zip archive or a set of loose files.  The loose files could
include VMSINSTAL save sets (xxx.A, xxx.B, ...) or a PCSI
(v-w-x-y--z.PCSI*) kit.

> [...] I don't know if phase v or phase iv is used or needed
> for tcp/ip.

   DECnet (of either version) is generally independent of IP
networking.  If you have one VMS system, DECnet may be of
little use to you.