This might help:
http://vaxine.bitcon.no/section3.html#ss33
It tells you how to make a NetBSD boot tape in *nix and VMS. Maybe you can
tar if= a disk image or something and tar=of onto a tape. Probably won't
work but worth a shot.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck McManis" <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: VMS media availability for VAX 8530
> At 10:11 AM 5/31/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >I've got VMS 2.something on 8" floppies, and VMS 5.something on TK-50
tapes,
> >but that's it. There might be a way to finagle VMS onto the 9 track or
5.25"
> >media from the current OpenVMS distro on CD.
>
> An interesting question. I've VMS 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x distributions on
> various media but none on 9-trk. I tried to get one recently but it had
> already been thrown away (youch!). So is it possible for VMS to _create_
> distribution media? Can you clone from one type to another? I could,
> presumably create a 9 track tape with the save sets on them and then
create
> one with standalone backup so that you could boot standalone backup, and
> then copy the save sets. Would that be sufficient? (Unfortunately my TU81+
> is out for the count, no doubt another one will tumble this way.)
>
> --Chuck
>
>
Received on Wed May 31 2000 - 13:02:25 BST