[Info-vax] VMSINSTAL user disk

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/16/2022 11:13 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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 think that would have been much easier top answer if we knew what
> kit it is all about. Or is it a general question?

The kit that triggered the question was the FIS GT.M 6.2 kit for
VMS Alpha that I mentioned recently.

But that kit is not a problem, because the installation actually
ask whether one want to install on system and if one answers NO
then it ask for disk and directory to install (and also asks
whether various COM files should be copied to system disk). All
good.

So the question was really generic.

Arne