[Info-vax] Alpha V8.4-2 distribution

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <nk54r8$r72$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.comwrites: 

> Got the Alpha 8.4-2 evaluation kit.  Unzipped it on my Alpha, got an iso
> image, which I was able to mount using LD.  The kit will work as an
> upgrade to V8.3, or later, but will not (according to the release notes)
> install on an empty disk. No problem, made an image copy of my 8.3
> system disk. 
> 
> Now, it's been a LONGGGG time since I did any installations / upgrades,
> and I'm not sure what can be done.  What I remember is you boot off the
> distribution media and use the menu to install or upgrade.  Can't boot
> off an LD container, since it needs VMS up before LD works.  Chicken and
> egg issues .... 
> 
> What I think I need to do is backup /image the LD container onto a spare
> disk. 

A while back, I installed 8.4 from the hobbyist distribution.  
Downloaded the image, mounted a disk /FOREIGN, copied the image to it, 
then booted off of this.

Note: COPY, not BACKUP.