[Info-vax] Product Install

Bill Cunningham nospam at nspam.invalid
Sat Feb 27 14:17:59 EST 2016


"Steven Schweda" <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:ced8d112-0cba-4c4c-af6a-71ed2e3f983e at googlegroups.com...
>> [...] Does this really mean anything to anyone?
>
>   Yes.  Most of these files are parts of the file system, created when
> the disk was initialized.  For many, mostly useless-to-you details:
>
>      HELP INITIALIZE
>
>   Some more helpful info:
>
>      http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/731final/4506/4506pro_001.html
>
> (Found by a Web search for CORIMG.SYS, but many others would have gotten
> there, too.)
>
>> [...] And DUA1 is a cdrom. The openvms73.iso I have.
>
>   Not likely.  I'd expect a VMS VAX installation CD-ROM to have files
> like VMS073.A, VMS073.B, and so on, on it.  This looks like disk which
> might have VMS installed on it.  The only things in your listing which
> are non-default are SYS0.DIR;1, SYSEXE.DIR;1, and VMS$COMMON.DIR;1,
> which are where VMS typically resides.  You're unlikely ever to deal
> directly with any of the others (except 000000.DIR;1).

    Oh yes I have vms073.b and vms073.f in my ISO (9660).

Bill





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