[Info-vax] VMSINSTAL user disk

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-01-16 kl. 15:49, skrev 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
> 

I think that would have been much easier top answer if we knew what
kit it is all about. Or is it a general question?