How do VMS Condists work?

From: Antonio Carlini <Antonio.Carlini_at_riverstonenet.com>
Date: Wed May 29 11:21:36 2002

>I know how to boot a CD-ROM in a VAX. I've got the VMS 7.2 hobbyist, VMS
>7.2 regular distrib, and VMS 7.3 regular distrib, and when I boot them
>all, I just go into standalone backup. I thought maybe there was some
>"trick" I didn't know about to boot into a regular VMS system.

The trick is that instead of booting with:

>>> BOOT DKA100:

you do something like:

>>> BOOT/R5:10000000 DKA100:

assuming that the alternate root is [SYS1].

I just looked on a V7.1 VAX binary disk and
it looks very much like [SYS0] (i.e. the
default boot) is S/A BACKUP and [SYS1]
(i.e. as above) is a full OpenVMS boot. Obviously
it's booted off a read-only medium so you do not
get to mess around too much, but it should be
enough to get your install done or fixup your
disk or whatever.

Antonio
Received on Wed May 29 2002 - 11:21:36 BST