[Info-vax] VMSINSTAL user disk

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-01-16 kl. 08:36, skrev Dave Froble:
> On 1/15/2022 7:48 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Is it possible to install a VMSINSTAL kit in a user
>> directory?
>>
>> If yes: how?
>>
>> Arne
>>
> 
> To specifically answer your question, yes.  As a LD container.  Copy the 
> data, multiple ways.
> 
> But the question I think you really wanted to ask is can the media be 
> installed from a user directory.  That answer I think is no.
> 
> To install, one needs to boot the installation media.  That must be from a 
> device, as far as I know.

Weird...
I have installed multiple VMSINSTAL kits without *booting* them...

I'm sure that the questing is regarding the target for the installation
from any VMSINSTAL kit not, *not* specifically a VMS OS distribution kit.

> 
> The method I and others have used is to move the installation media into a 
> directory and mount it as an LD device.  Then IMAGE restore it to an actual 
> disk.  Then boot that disk.
>