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From: mitch@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mitch Collinsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VMS v5.0 & RD53 system disks
Message-ID: <4778@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 12 May 88 16:06:22 GMT
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Reply-To: mitch@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mitch Collinsworth)
Organization: Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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>I have recently been told that RD53s will no longer be allowed as system
>disks due to the new "one size fits all" VMS.  Has anyone else heard anything
>about this???

I don't believe this is true.  The way I understand the new installation
procedure will work is that it will be similar to the way uVMS used to work.
You pick and choose and only install the parts you want, so you can make it
fit on whatever disk you're using by just skipping the parts you don't want.

-Mitch Collinsworth
 mitch@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu