[Info-vax] DECdfs 2.4A for VAX distro

[Galen]

On Monday, October 25, 2021 at 11:46:53 PM UTC-4, Galen wrote:
 Dave Froble, you've mentioned before that you have multiple versions of the CONDIST. Do you have the contents catalogued so that you could easily find which version included DECdfs V2.4A?

I wrote:
> The other is a real Alphaserver DS10 running V8.4-4L2 (if I remember the "L2" right for the DS10's processor generation.) 

Oops. I don't really have 8.4-4Lanything!
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If you want to save me from myself :-) (see below for an explanation) and have access to the VAX installation kit for DECdfs, please let me know before it's too late! Consider this a desperate plea for help! :-D


Why I need saved from myself:

The LP1 disk for Alpha 8.4-2 includes a VMSINSTAL kit for DECdfs V2.4A (again, I hope I remember that version number correctly).

Although its KITINSTAL.COM is written so that it will only install on Alpha or Integrity, the files for the VAX version are still there in a now-unused saveset.

So I'm tempted to unpack the necessary savesets, tweak the install .COM files, and repackage them. The number of files to be installed is not large, nor are there a lot of tweaks needed to SYSGEN parameters, and I'm pretty comfortable handling what I expect would be small number of additions to the installed images, making sure to set INSTALLed privileges, etc, as should be needed.

Before installing such a modified kit, I would definitely want to make certain I had a good backup of the system disk! That's pretty simple to do for a simh VAX, unlike the old days of hardware VAXes when you'd need physical media. 

I don't know what version(s) of the CONDIST included DECdfs2.4A except that it must have been some time after July 1994, if that helps much.