[Info-vax] OpenVMS Development Annoyances

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-05-06 16:56:44 +0000, Hans Bachner said:

> Even better - instead of installing standalone backup on a VAX, you 
> install "minimum VMS" on Alpha and IA64.
> 
> Check out SYS$SYSTEM:AXPVMS$PCSI_INSTALL_MIN.COM (or 
> I64VMS$PCSI_INSTALL_MIN) to install the Standalone Backup replacement 
> on a data/spare disk.

The OpenVMS VAX distros have had had a bootable OpenVMS VAX environment 
for many years, dating back to ~1993 and ~V6 or so.

There've been few reasons to boot and use Standalone BACKUP in a 
~quarter-century.

This particularly given that newer OpenVMS VAX distros can back up and 
restore older OpenVMS VAX installations.

This assuming the VAX has a CD or a host-based InfoServer installation 
environment or a scratch bootable disk or similar hardware available, 
or an emulation of same.



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