[HECnet] Bringing up a MicroVAX 3100-80

[Dave McGuire]

On 3/31/20 12:37 AM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
>>    Waitaminute...so the disk image that you generated by reading a
>> bootable 7.3 CD differs from the HPE-distributed 7.3 file?  Does the
>> latter not contain standalone backup at the beginning, etc?
> 
> Yes.  The file I downloaded from HP (just two weeks ago) is a backup
> save set zipped into an archive. It's not a disk image. Well, unless the
> backup saveset is a of a diskimage. But I don't think so.
...

  Wow, ok, I didn't know that.  My 7.3 CD image certainly isn't like
that; it's bootable into standalone BACKUP.  I've burnt it to physical
disks several times, and installed VMS many times from them, on lots of
machines.

  Surely they knew the other approach wouldn't be terribly useful?

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA