How do VMS Condists work?

From: Antonio Carlini <Antonio.Carlini_at_riverstonenet.com>
Date: Fri May 31 00:10:12 2002

>I just tried, my VAX 7.2 VMS CD also boots into a minimal VMS from SYS1
>on my MicroVAX. So I guess they changed it between 7.1 and 7.2.

I don't know where they changed but I looked
at a V7.1 binary disk and it had a [SYS1]
directory with many files underneath. The
easy-to-spot difference between S/A BACKUP
and full OpenVMS boot is the number of files.

I don't have either V6.2 or V6.1 to hand so I
don't know if this (undocumented and
unsupported) facility was there back then.

If you tried booting V7.1 and it didn't work,
then either I looked at something other than
V7.1 or you booted incorrectly.

Antonio
Received on Fri May 31 2002 - 00:10:12 BST

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