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

[David Froble]

dgordonatvsi at gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 11:51:05 PM UTC-4, David Froble wrote:
>  
>> 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.
> 
> 
> There are known, believed-to-be-cosmetic issues with the Alpha eval kit installation (vs upgrade.) 
> 
> All kit media has had SYSxx directories for as long as I can remember.  There's really only a single set of common directories: [VMS$COMMON...] -- all the SYSn roots are just directory entries for a single directory.  Try DIRECTORY/FILE_ID...

Hmmm ....

Maybe showing my age again, but, I seem to remember when the number of 
directories wasn't so numerous ....