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Subj:	Re: Booting a AXP system standalone !!

From: thompson@CSOS.ORST.EDU (Scott Thompson)
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Subject: Re: Booting a AXP system standalone !!
Date: 26 Oct 1994 11:49:48 -0700
Organization: CS Outreach Services, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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>>2-When i read the Openvms 6.1 release notes they tell me DEC is creating some-
>>thing new so i can make my standalone backup's without booting the cdrom 
>>distribution software (like standalone backup did using stabackit.com).
>>Does anybody know what it is and when it is released or does somebody have
>>a good idea to solve my problem.
>> 
>
>If you execute sys$update:stabackit.com under VMS 6.1 on an alpha it will tell
>you all about its replacement.  sys$system:axpvms$pcsi_install_min.com
>installs a minimal copy of VMS on a second disk (i.e. not the system disk)
>which, when booted provides an autologin to SYSTEM at the console (and no other
>users or terminals).  BACKUP and lots of other commands work (from the 
>documentation, I don't think DEC researched to find out which ones) and of 
>course no files are open on the system disk.
>
>Bob Koehler                     |
>koehler@bessta.gsfc.nasa.gov    | rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov

Has anyone sucessfully built one of these "minimal systems" on an Alpha using
the Storage Works RAID disk arrays?  I have 6 disks configured as JBOD and the
instructions for building one of these "minimal systems" on one of these disks
(as listed in the StorageWorks RAID Array 200 Subsystem Family User's Guide for
OpenVMS AXP") is quite ugly - not to mention it doesn't work.  When I called
Customer Support, they faxed out another sheet of instructions for building
a "minimal system" on a RAID disk (this too, failed to work).

Any success out there?

Scott R Thompson
Linn-Benton Community College
Albany, OR
thompson@csos.orst.edu