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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

10060.0. "Automated reboot from VMS to UNIX and back" by GERUND::WOLFE (I'm going to huff, and puff, and blow your house down) Fri Jun 06 1997 01:09

At this past DECUS I was speaking to a VMS customer who is planning
on migrating a system over to Digital UNIX. He'd like to keep 
VMS on one disk and run that during the day, and keep UNIX on 
a second disk and run that at night. The kicker is that he wants
the switchover to be automated. IOW, a batch job would shut down 
the VMS system and reboot into Digital UNIX. A cron job then 
shuts that system down and VMS should be booted. 

I'm guessing this is possible on the newer systems that support
writing console variables. However, I also remember seeing old
notes about time problems when switching OS's. Also, would
there be firmware version issues?

			Pete
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