[Info-vax] OpenVMS Development Annoyances

[Hans Bachner]

Stephen Hoffman schrieb am 06.05.2019 um 23:26:
> 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.

On most VAXen I've seen the CD drive is painfully slow by today's 
measures. Booting Standalone Backup from a data disk is *much* faster, 
if making/restoring a backup is all I want to do.

Hans.