[Info-vax] VMSINSTAL user disk

[abrsvc]

On Sunday, January 16, 2022 at 7:17:15 AM UTC-5, Volker Halle wrote:
> Arne, 
> 
> what exactly are you looking for ? 
> 
> You can use the VMSINSTAL option "R" to install the product onto an alternate system disk, not the one @VMSINSTAL has been started from. 
> 
> see the OpenVMS Developer’s Guide to VMSINSTAL: 
> https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/doc/alpha-v8.3/ovms_archived/OVMS_DEVGD_VMSINSTAL.PDF 
> 
> Whether the product's KITINSTAL.COM procedure allows installation of the product onto a different specific directory, is up to that procedure. 
> 
> Volker.
If I read the original post intent correctly, the question is: Can you install a kit with a user directory as the target rather than the standard system directories (current or alternate root as in a cluster).

I believe that the answer to this is NO.

You CAN place the kit anywhere you want and have that directory be the SOURCE of the installation process.