VMS media availability for VAX 8530

From: Clint Wolff <vaxman_at_uswest.net>
Date: Wed May 31 18:43:33 2000

I've copied VMS 5.? onto 9-track tape for my '750. The only major
problem is booting standalone backup. 9-tracks aren't bootable
(or at least I've never seen a boot program that worked for them).

clint



On Wed, 31 May 2000, Chuck McManis wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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