[Info-vax] VMS 8.4-2L1 on AXPBox

[Ben Lambert]

On Friday, 1 January 2021 at 18:28:27 UTC, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> I finally got AXPBox to build and figured this was a good time to 
> get my VMS System running. 
> 
> No joy in Mudville.... 
> 
> Portion done: 0%...10% 
> 
> %PCSI-E-OPENOUT, error opening 
> DISK$ALPHASYS:[VMS$COMMON.][SYSHLP]HELPLIB.HLB; a 
> s output 
> -RMS-E-FNF, file not found 
> %PCSI-E-OPFAILED, operation failed 
> Terminating is strongly recommended. Do you want to terminate? [YES] 
> 
> I have tried it twice with the same result. 
> 
> The second time I answered "NO' with the following result: 
> 
> %PCSI-E-OPENIN, error opening 
> DISK$ALPHASYS:[VMS$COMMON.][SYSLIB]DCLTABLES.EXE; 
> as input 
> -RMS-E-FNF, file not found 
> %PCSI-E-OPFAILED, operation failed 
> Terminating is strongly recommended. Do you want to terminate? [YES] 
> 
> tried "NO" again and it seems to be continuing, but even if it 
> finishes I can't believe it will run correctly with those files 
> missing. 
> 
> Any suggestions? 
> 
> bill

I have that same installation error, but it runs fine afterwards and the 'missing' files appear to be there.
Others have mentioned it before as well, with no indications of later issues:

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.vms/c/dUGJelByoUk/m/AFrHysL8AQAJ

HTH

Ben.