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

[Rich Jordan]

On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 6:15:54 PM UTC-6, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC

Maybe our local 2620 tonight, if I can get another working optical disk on it.

Otherwise nope... all our test/spare boxes are alphas.  This is the first time we've had an integrity related project of this type.