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

[Paul Sture]

On 2018-02-15, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <34bgle-m3a2.ln1 at news2.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
><nospam at sture.ch> writes: 
>
>> > 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.
>> 
>> No, we don't want EVERYTHING, we only want the components needed for
>> this instance's requirements.  The attack surface area should be
>> kept to the minimum.
>
> We are talking 20 cents per GB or whatever.  Is the effort to reduce the 
> footprint really worth it?

We seem to be talking about two flavours of "Software Installation" here.

a) transfer the installation packages to disk e.g. copy the PCSI kits
   to disk
b) actually install a given package in the VMSINSTAL or PRODUCT install
   sense

What I am saying is that a) is OK, but automatically installing everything
in case b) is most definitely not a good idea.

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