--- "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh_at_aracnet.com> wrote:
> >Speaking of which, what would it take (DCL script, binaries, etc.) to
> >move older VMS distros (VMS 5.5-2 comes to mind) from magtape to CD-ROM
> >for installation on those platforms that have one but not the other.
>
> 5.5 is available on CD, it's just not easy to get.
If I had it, I wouldn't be asking. :-)
> What you want instead of mkisofs is something called the "Logical Disk
> Driver", IIRC. That allows you to create a CD sized ODS-2 logical disk
> that you can copy stuff onto.
Is that a DEC (HP) product or Freeware?
> Actually on second thought this would probably be easiest on a SCSI based
> VAX with an RZ25.
How about a SCSI-based Alpha? And how about an RZ26 that isn't more than
65% full? If physical size really matters, I could throw an ST1480
drive on the Alpha and have 424MB - plenty of room for this task.
> Get the RZ25 setup the way you want (getting Standalone Backup on it
> wouldn't be any problem),
Would it be a problem for cross-platform? I know it's easy to make
a disk on your own machine bootable to standalone (SYSE and whatnot).
I guess given the DCL script to make the standalone partition in the
first place, it wouldn't be impossible to modify it to pull from
someplace other than SYS$SYSROOT.
Considering that I want to use an AXP/VMS 6.1 system to build a
bootable VAX/VMS 5.x system, I really would have to be able to
work from something other than SYS$SYSROOT. I have plenty of
empty disk (5 SCSI buses on this beast - two with 4 drives and no
external connectors and three with external connectors (and a variety
of devices already present), so I could unpack the VMS 5.5 saveset
to its own disk and use its "make standalone" script to create the
target filesystem on yet _another_ disk.
Pity it probably won't fit on a ZIP disk - I'll have to physically
move a drive from machine to machine.
> ...pull the RZ25 and stick it in a Linux box and 'dd' it off to an image
> file and write the image file to CD-R.
That's the easy part. I'll probably do it on SPARCstation instead of
an Intel Linux box, but that's no big deal.
-ethan
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Received on Wed Jun 05 2002 - 13:15:31 BST