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Conference vaxaxp::vmsnotes

Title:VAX and Alpha VMS
Notice:This is a new VMSnotes, please read note 2.1
Moderator:VAXAXP::BERNARDO
Created:Wed Jan 22 1997
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:703
Total number of notes:3722

192.0. "How to create a VMS bootable CDROM ?" by PADKOA::COSTEUX (Le Plat Pays qui est le mien...) Thu Feb 13 1997 08:04

    A customer would like to do the following:
    - he wants to create a VMS bootable CDROM then put on it a VAXELN image he
    could then copy to a target hard disk while the CDROM would be booted.
    The target hard disk would be on another system which would include a
    hard disk and a CDROM drive.
    - so he needs at minimum some commands like INIT , CREATE (/DIR), COPY,
    DELETE .... to configure the target hard disk.
    
    How can we create a VMS bootable CDROM to allow this user to do what he
    wishes ? I've not seen this possibility (either hardware or software) 
    directly from the standard VMS system. So can somebody help and suggest 
    some way to achieve that ?
    
    Thanks in advance for help.
    
    Jean-Pierre
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192.1Three Options...XDELTA::HOFFMANSteve, OpenVMS EngineeringThu Feb 13 1997 09:4547
   Given the VAXeln reference, I'll assume this is OpenVMS VAX.

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   Acquire a standard RZ-series magnetic disk in a StorageWorks or
   other external SCSI storage enclosure, such one of the smaller
   RZxx series disks.  (A disk near 600 MB in capacity is best.)

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   Create a version of standalone BACKUP on a magnetic disk, and
   relocate a copy of an /IMAGE saveset onto the target disk.
   Write-lock it, and test the bootstrap and operation of the disk.
   Then relocate the disk over to an InfoServer with CD-R, and create
   a CD-ROM.

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   Alternatively...

   Create a bootable disk on a magnetic storage device in the format
   desired using a standard software installation sequence, and then
   update the disk to contain the desired files and necessary command
   procedures that boot, intialize, and relocate the file(s) in the
   desired way.  (This is probably a minimal bootstrap, with some sort
   of unsupported and site-specific updates to SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP.COM,
   to perform the necessary steps.)

   Then write-lock the bootable (test) disk and perform some basic test
   bootstraps.

   Once satisfied with the operation of the disk, transfer the disk to
   an InfoServer with the CD-R option.  Then create the CD-ROM disk.
   Then test the CD-ROM.

   I've been able to successfully bootstrap and OpenVMS VAX system
   from a write-locked disk, but it did tend to complain long and loud.

	--

   Alternatively...

   Create a bootable VAXeln CD-ROM disk that initializes and loads a
   specified set of image(s) onto a target volume.
192.2LEFTY::CWILLIAMSCD or not CD, that's the questionThu Feb 13 1997 13:354
    Tape::INFOSERVER for InfoServer details....
    
    Chris
192.3MARVIN::CARLINIFri Feb 14 1997 07:5910
Re: .0

As I found out in a previous incarnation of this conference, some of the recent
OpenVMS VAX O/S distribution disks have a bootable root [SYS1] (the VAXVMS070
disk is one such).

So make a copy of that using an Inforserver with CD-R, remembering to add the
additional files the customer wants.

Antonio