[Info-vax] VMSINSTAL user disk

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/16/2022 8:38 AM, abrsvc wrote:
> On Sunday, January 16, 2022 at 7:17:15 AM UTC-5, Volker Halle wrote:
>> 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.

> 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).

Yes.

@VMINSTAL of some product
install in DISKn:[ARNE.TO_BE_DELETED]
try it out
just delete it

> 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.

I do that all the time.

Arne