Hello Jeremy ,
On Tue, 7 Aug 2018, Jeremy Begg wrote:
...snip...
I Very vaugely remember a document that came with the Field Test kit
that gave me a hint that it was possible to "Upgrade" from the K7.2 to the
production version of 7.2 after the field testing was completed .
And of course that document is either extrememly buried or gone .
If I recall correctly, to do a VMS upgrade on VAX you put the VMS kit
savesets somewhere easily found (e.g. top level directory of the VMS system
disk) then run
$ @SYS$UPDATE:VMSINSTAL VMS073 DUA0:[000000]
(assuming your kit savesets are VMS073.A, VMS073.B, etc and DUA0:[000000] is
where you put them).
It's possible to tell VMSINSTAL to pause the installation so that you can
make changes to the kit:
$ @SYS$UPDATE:VMSINSTAL VMS073 DUA0:[000000] OPTIONS RSP=A
This will tell VMSINSTAL to unpack the .A saveset and then it wait at a
prompt. Login from another terminal and edit the KITINSTAL.COM procedure
which you will find in a newly-created subdirectory of SYS$UPDATE.
Somewhere in KITINSTAL.COM it will define the VMS version it is willing to
ugprade from.
Regards,
Jeremy Begg
Working on getting the savesets copied over , But dua0:[000000] (*)
contains critical files I'd really rather not pollute with the savesets .
Would creating a subdirectory there work too ? I do have another disk
(well disk file in simh) available I could use if that could work ?
Tia , JimL
(*)
$ dir VAXX1$DUA0:[000000] /size/date
Directory VAXX1$DUA0:[000000]
000000.DIR;1 1 29-SEP-1998 10:27:56.56
BACKUP.SYS;1 0 29-SEP-1998 10:27:56.56
BADBLK.SYS;1 0 29-SEP-1998 10:27:56.56
BADLOG.SYS;1 0 29-SEP-1998 10:27:56.56
BITMAP.SYS;1 229 29-SEP-1998 10:27:56.56
CONTIN.SYS;1 0 29-SEP-1998 10:27:56.56
CORIMG.SYS;1 0 29-SEP-1998 10:27:56.56
INDEXF.SYS;1 63981 29-SEP-1998 10:27:56.56
SECURITY.SYS;1 1 29-SEP-1998 10:27:56.56
SYS0.DIR;1 1 29-SEP-1998 10:28:01.01
SYSEXE.DIR;1 1 29-SEP-1998 10:28:27.45
TCPIP$FTP.DIR;1 1 22-JUL-2018 16:02:26.81
VMS$COMMON.DIR;1 3 29-SEP-1998 10:28:00.49
VOLSET.SYS;1 0 29-SEP-1998 10:27:56.56
Total of 14 files, 64218 blocks.
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