[Info-vax] Best "Standalone" boot versions for Alpha and Itanium

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-01-14 00:02:57 +0000, Rich Jordan said:

>      Is there a way to use the distribution DVD to install VMS onto a 
> disk while the system is actually running off of a live system disk?  I 
> know you can do the minimal bootable installtion onto a disk from the 
> live running system, but can you install a full VMS to a spare disk on 
> a running VMS system?  I'm not going to just image the DVD over to the 
> disk ahead of time and lose the existing option for booting and backing 
> up, and that would be the 'standalone' version running, not a real 
> install.

BACKUP /IMAGE a copy of a bootable DVD disk onto the target HDD or SSD 
disk, SET BOOTBLOCK to write a bootblock onto it (BACKUP usually does 
this for you, but there've been a few cases where it hasn't), then from 
the running system either use @BOOT_OPTIONS.COM to add an EFI boot 
alias entry or expect to have to rummage around to find the newly-added 
bootable system disk via EFI, when you want to boot from it.

Don't you have any systems to test with?


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