[Info-vax] VMS First-Boot on x86 Contest

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <14f431aa-8ecc-42e8-805d-238b89a11852 at googlegroups.com>, Neil
Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes: 

> p.s. a full copy of CentOS-7.x can be burned to a single DVD.

VMS with all layered products as well?  CD?  No.  DVD?  Blu-Ray?  

Whatever.  Some of the complexity of a VMS installation involves 
choosing what to install, whether to de-compress stuff, and so on.  
About 20 years ago, I bought a 4-GB disk for f. 500 or whatever.  These 
days, a disk 100 times as large can be had for about a tenth of the 
price---a factor of 1000.  (And 50 GB costs 99 cents a month in the 
iCloud.)  Hopefully VSI will change things so that a new VMS 
installation installs EVERYTHING.  Disks are cheap.  Really cheap.  If 
necessary, some functionality could be restricted via licensing.